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Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig has a lot on his mind these days between persistent concerns over steroid use by players, falling television ratings, and a burgeoning online business. That’s a lot to keep track of, so you’d think that Selig would be a pretty wired guy, but it turns out that the boss of baseball is a major league luddite.

“I am a complete computer illiterate, I’m not ashamed of it,” Selig, 73, told the Reuters Media Summit in New York.

 ”I have a cell phone and all I know how to do is say hello and goodbye. That is the extent of my involvement.  I don’t have a computer, I’m the only one left in baseball, maybe in life without.”

“Tom Werner of the Boston Red Sox, wonderfully bought me a Blackberry a year ago, flew in from L.A., spent a day with me, tried to teach me about it, it’s still in the drawer off to my right at home where I left it.”

Selig may be able to recall details of games 25 years ago, but he said his granddaughters were appalled to learn of his technology cluelessness over the Thanksgiving holiday.

“My granddaughters have voted me computer illiterate of the year, and it is much deserved.”