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Gene Budig, academic who ran American League, dies at 81

by AP Baseball Writers
| September 8, 2020 10:03 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — Gene Budig, the self-effacing educator and baseball fan from small-town Nebraska who became the head of three major universities and the last president of the American League, died Tuesday. He was 81.

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