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"BALTIMORE &amp;mdash; Rob Manfred was elected baseball&amp;rsquo;s 10th commissioner Thursday and will succeed Bud Selig in January. A labor lawyer who has worked for Major League Baseball since 1998, Manfred beat out Boston Red Sox chairman Tom Werner in the first contested vote for a new commissioner in 46 years. The third candidate, MLB executive vice president of business Tim Brosnan, dropped out just before the start of voting. &amp;ldquo;I am tremendously honored by the confidence owners showed in me&amp;hellip;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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