A SIDEWAYS GLANCE : AT LEAST BUD HAS GOTTEN SOMETHING DONE.

Bud Selig, the perpetually interim baseball commissioner of who has taken his share of criticism for the lack of a collective bargaining agreement, had a reason to feel a sense of achievement Saturday.

With fireworks and an emotionally charged crowd in the background, baseball greats Hank Aaron and Robin Yount were the first to put shovels in the ground at the ceremonial groundbreaking for the $250 million Miller Park.

``Today, we begin building a new era of baseball in Wisconsin,'' Gov. Tommy Thompson said from a stage at the site of the new ballpark, in the center-field parking lot of County Stadium.

Selig, the Brewers' team president, was among the dignitaries on hand to watch. And accept adulation from others.

``Without Bud Selig and his staff, the persistence and what he went through to have Miller Park built, I think you would be without baseball,'' said Aaron.

``Without Bud being bullheaded and as determined as he was to have it done, it would have been a loss of major-league baseball to the city,'' said former Brewer Gorman Thomas.

``It's a glorious day,'' Selig said. ``It's been a remarkable day in every way, shape, form, or matter.''

Now, about the rest of the sport . . .

?13Daily News Wire Services

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