Fay Vincent, who became an unexpected baseball commissioner in 1989 following the death of A. Bartlett Giamatti and then was forced out three years later by owners intent on a labor confrontation with ...
Happy Chandler, April 24, 1945 to July 15, 1951. Ford Frick, Sept. 20, 1951 to Nov. 16, 1965. William Eckert, Nov. 17, 1965 to Dec. 20, 1968. Bowie Kuhn, Feb. 4, 1969 to Sept. 30, 1984. Peter ...
Fay Vincent, whose short term as Major League Baseball's eighth commissioner featured him more as a crisis manager, died on Saturday in Vero Beach, Fla. He was 86.