Bud Selig was mingling with a group of baseball executives in a private suite at Fenway Park before Game 2 of the American League Championship Series between Boston and Cleveland when the game's chief financial officer, Jonathan Mariner, approached. "I really have good news for you," Mariner told Selig. At Selig's request, Mariner had run the numbers to project major league baseball's total gross revenue for 2007. Selig expected an increase from the record $5.4 billion in revenue the previous year, but even he was taken aback by the new figure. "He told me revenues in the sport are going over $6 billion," said Selig. "Imagine that. When you think back to where we were 10, 15 years ago, it's stunning. What a story." With a record 79.5 million fans attending games this year, hundreds of millions of dollars coming in via television and radio broadcasts, on both the national and local levels, and Major League Baseball's Internet division producing income far beyond original expectations, the game is doing business like never before.