Former Major League base ball commissioner Fay Vincent died on Saturday at the age of 86 due to bladder cancer.
Vincent was Baseball’s Commissioner from 1989 to 1992 and took over for Bart Giamatti after his sudden death just eight days after he banned Pete Rose from baseball.
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Vincent played an important role in Rose’s punishment after being Deputy Commissioner of Giamatti.
MLB Commissioner Fay Vincent before a game between Detroit Tigers and White Sox at Comiskey Park in Chicago around 1990. (Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images)
He became Commissioner on September 1, 1989, and chaired the league during the year’s World Series between Giants and Athletics, which was stopped due to the deadly earthquake in the bay.
Vincent was the Commissioner of Owners Lockout in 1990, and he handed over a permanent suspension to New York Yankee’s owner George Steinbrenner, who was reintroduced by Vincent’s successor, Bud Selig.
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Commissioner Fay Vincent was the Commissioner of Owners Lockout in 1990, and he handed over a permanent suspension to New York Yanke’s owner George Steinbrenner. (Phil Huber/Sports Illustrated Via Getty Images)
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As a baseball commissioner angry Vincent owners by becoming the first management official to admit the interaction among teams against free agents after the seasons 1985, 86 and ’87. He also shared expansion fees between both leagues and tried to force the National League adaptation and change the division of four teams.
“Mr. Vincent served the game in a time of many challenges, and he remained proud of his association with our national pastime throughout his life,” the current commissioner, Rob Manfred, said in a statement.
Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent presents the World Series trophy to athletics owner Walter A. Haas, after Oakland defeated Giants to win the World Series, October 28, 1989, in Candlestick Park in San Francisco. (Focus on Sport/Getty Images)
In one of his lasting actions as a commissioner, he was chairman of a committee of eight members for statistical accuracy that removed the asterisk, who had been next to Roger Maris’ post as the season’s home driving and deleted 50 without meetings. The group defined a no-hitter like games of nine laps or more that ended up without hits.
