OXON HILL, Md. — On the day he was put in charge of baseball in 1992, Bud Selig said his new job was “hopefully relatively short term.”

“But if you’re asking me what relatively short term means, obviously this morning I don’t know,” he said.

Maintaining power for more than 22 years, Selig oversaw a revolution in baseball that included interleague play, the expansion of the playoffs from four teams to eight and then 10, dividing each league into three divisions with wild cards, instituting video review to aid umpires, revenue sharing to help small-market teams and 20 new big league ballparks.

He also presided over the first cancellation of the World Series in 90 years, an attempt to use replacement players for striking big leaguers and the unchecked rise and later crackdown on illegal steroids. He was head of baseball’s labor policy when owners were found to have conspired against free agents.

Selig’s imprint was recognized Sunday when the 82-year-old was elected to the Hall of Fame by the Today’s Game Era Committee.

“We were a sport resistant to change,” he said. “I believe in those years as commissioner, that’s the most change in baseball history.”

Selig became the fifth of the 10 commissioners voted to the Hall, joining Kenesaw Mountain Landis (1920-44), Happy Chandler (1945-51), Ford Frick (1951-65) and Bowie Kuhn (1969-84). Every commissioner who has served at least five years is in Cooperstown.

“I’m happy for him. I think it’s deserved,” said Fay Vincent, the commissioner Selig helped force out. “I think that after ‘94, Bud really got the point very clearly. I think Bud realized in ‘94 there was no point in trying to test the union anymore.”