Street & Smith's SportsBusiness Journal and SportsBusiness Daily has named Bud Selig their Executive of the Year. In their joint announcement on Tuesday, the publications cited Selig's leadership in a year when Major League Baseball's revenue was $5.2 billion and attendance was more than 76 million, both record figures. The year also featured a new Collective Bargaining Agreement reached without a work stoppage, three new television and media agreements, long-awaited stadium deals in Minneapolis, the San Francisco Bay Area and Washington, D.C., the success of the inaugural World Baseball Classic and the seventh different World Series champion in seven years. "Baseball under Bud Selig's leadership has done in one calendar year what for most people would be a great career," Fox Sports president Ed Goren told SportsBusiness Journal and SportsBusiness Daily in the latest issue. Fox Sports in July committed $1.8 billion to MLB between 2007 and 2013 in one of the new TV deals. "I've said it time and again: We're in a golden age of baseball, a renaissance," Commissioner Selig said from his Milwaukee office. "We're doing things that nobody thought possible. I've had tremendous support from the clubs and the Players Association, so it's not trite to say that I accept this on behalf of very many people. "It's kind of funny that I'm getting patted on the back now for the same things that I got ripped for in the 1990s. We've come a long way since then. The labor agreements, for example; we had eight work stoppages and a lot of suspicion and hatred. Now there's peace and quiet. To do what we have done, it took labor peace." A former winner, NBA commissioner David Stern, agreed with Selig's selection.