MLB's Bud Selig Proudly Joins the Executive No-E-mail Crowd

When he wasn’t gabbing on the talk-show circuit this week about alleged PED user Alex Rodriguez, Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig dropped a small bombshell with a reporter for SportsBusiness Journal. Selig, a 78-year-old former car dealer and owner of the Milwaukee Brewers, said he’s never used e-mail. And it wasn’t an admission—it was more a declaration. He said he “never will.”

It’s true that there’s something endearing about old duffers who thumb their noses at newfangled modern technologies. Who can blame historian David McCullough, after winning two Pulitzer Prizes, for continuing to clunk away on a typewriter in a small, unheated shed in the woods? But it does seem odd that Selig, the chief executive of a massive sports body with such a sprawling bureaucracy, would forgo a simple Outlook account.