Baseball commissioner Bud Selig looks internationally.

AP / Rick Maiman

BOSTON — Major League Baseball plans to go global, and there may be games scheduled in China as early as next year, baseball commissioner Bud Selig said last night during a visit to Fenway Park for last night’s Red Sox-Tigers game while in town on other business.

“We’ve opened an office in Bejing, and China is part of our international plans — our very ambitious, very aggressive international plans,” he said, adding that it is “highly possible” there would be games played in Japan at some point, as well. “So next week, we have three or four owners going. Larry Lucchino from the Red Sox is going and we want to play games in China. People ask me what our next big goal for the sport is and it’s the internationalization of the sport.”

Selig addressed a wide range of issues in his brief meeting with the media during last night’s game:

•He had nothing to say regarding Barry Bonds, who is nearing Hank Aaron’s home run record: “I’ll tell you what I tell everybody else. I’ll make up my mind at some appropriate time. And nothing has changed.”

However, Selig was more than happy to share his memories of the legendary Aaron’s playing days.

“I saw him play his first game in the big leagues, and I saw him play his last game in the big leagues and many, many hundreds of them (in between),” he said. “We have been close friends, literally have grown up together. I have great memories. I saw him hit a home run to win the pennant for the ’57 Milwaukee Braves, and I’ve seen him do a lot of spectacular things on the field, as well as off the field. He’s a great player in every way.”

•Selig says he has sympathy for Red Sox legend Johnny Pesky, who learned this season that he is no longer allowed in the dugout during games because of a major-league rule that limits the number of coaches in the dugout to six. But he also said there is nothing he can do about it.

“Johnny Pesky’s a fixture around here and a great part of this franchise for many years,” Selig said of the 87-year-old former player, coach and manager. “And I like to accommodate everybody, but rules are rules and these are rules the general managers asked for. I feel badly about it. I feel very badly, but the general managers said six coaches are enough, but it’s up to each local club to decide who the six coaches are.”

•Asked about his other priorities for Major League Baseball beyond going international, Selig said: “The sport is doing so well today, is so popular, I just don’t want anything to get in the way of that. My major goal now, other than the internationalization, which is the next great area of expansion for us, is just to keep the train on the track. We’ve had labor peace for 16 years. Nobody ever thought that possible, including me. All spring training this year, it was funny to go from camp to camp and have not one question about labor. That never happened before. So just the record attendance and everything else. Our TV ratings everywhere are through the roof, they’re just fabulous, and I want to make sure . . . that we keep the focus on the field.”

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