Major League Baseball Commissioner from 1989 to 1992
Fay Vincent
8th Commissioner of Baseball
In office September 13, 1989 – September 7, 1992
Preceded by
A. Bartlett Giamatti
Succeeded by
Bud Selig
Personal details
Born
Francis Thomas Vincent Jr.
(1938-05-29) May 29, 1938 (age 85) Waterbury, Connecticut, U.S.
Alma mater
Williams College Yale Law School (J.D.)
Known for
President of the New England Collegiate Baseball League (1998–2003) MLB Commissioner
Francis Thomas Vincent Jr. (born May 29, 1938), known as Fay Vincent, is a former entertainment lawyer, securities regulator, and sports executive who served as the eighth Commissioner of Major League Baseball from September 13, 1989, to September 7, 1992.
Francis Thomas Vincent Jr. (born May 29, 1938), known as FayVincent, is a former entertainment lawyer, securities regulator, and sports executive who...
ownership over the Brewers. FayVincent was never able to complete the five-year term that he had inherited from Bart Giamatti. Vincent would later contend that...
Francis Vincent may refer to: FayVincent (Francis Thomas Vincent, born 1938), American former entertainment lawyer and sports executive, commissioner...
commissioner to die in office, the first being Kenesaw Mountain Landis in 1944. FayVincent, Giamatti's close friend and baseball's first deputy commissioner, became...
day-to-day management (but not ownership) of the Yankees by MLB Commissioner FayVincent for paying a gambler named Howard Spira $40,000 to dig up "dirt" on Winfield...
Commissioner FayVincent, and soon became the leader of a group of owners seeking his removal. Selig has never stated that the owners colluded, while Vincent has:...
having once played each other when both were based in a different city. FayVincent, who had just taken over as Commissioner of Baseball after the sudden...
disaster. Approximately 30 minutes after the earthquake, Commissioner FayVincent ordered the game to be postponed. Fans, workers, and the teams evacuated...
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Commissioner FayVincent sent a memo to all teams stating that steroid use was against the rules, though there was no official rule change. Vincent has said...
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Whereas suspensions in the past were rare and usually short, Commissioner FayVincent and his successor Bud Selig reacted harshly to instances of both beaning...
declared permanently ineligible." In 1992, Rose applied for reinstatement. FayVincent, who as deputy commissioner had played a key role in negotiating the...
distribute the money to the damaged players. At that time, then-commissioner FayVincent told the owners: The single biggest reality you guys have to face up...
resulting in "second look" free agents, and over $280 million in fines. FayVincent, who followed as Ueberroth's successor in the commissioner's office,...
from induction, a position that was endorsed by Giamatti's successor FayVincent. On the other hand, in his most recent statement affirming Rose's ban...
demanding that Steinbrenner sell the team. On July 30, 1990, Commissioner FayVincent banned Steinbrenner from baseball for life after he paid Howard Spira...
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responsible for the ousting of FayVincent as the Commissioner of Baseball in 1992. He had previously undermined Vincent by employing Richard Ravitch as...
Senate Task Force on Major League Baseball, pushed Baseball Commissioner FayVincent to expand to Florida. On March 7, 1990, Wayne Huizenga, CEO of Blockbuster...
Medjuck and Michael C. Gross as associate producers. Columbia's CEO FayVincent sent his lawyer Dick Gallop to Los Angeles to convince Price not to pursue...
sports network. Similar apparent punitive efforts by MLB Commissioner FayVincent to curb superstation telecasts of Major League Baseball games – including...
1991, the Committee for Statistical Accuracy, appointed by commissioner FayVincent, changed the definition of a no-hitter to require that a pitcher must...