The former Major League Baseball Commissioner, Fay Vincent, died on Saturday at the age of 86 due to bladder cancer.
Vincent was the baseball commissioner from 1989 to 1992, assuming the position of Bart Giamatti after his sudden death only eight days after he prohibited Pete Rose from baseball.
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Vincent played an important role in Rose’s punishment, after being a attached commissioner of Giamatti.
MLB Commissioner Fay Vincent before a game between Detroit’s tigers and white stockings in Comiskey Park in Chicago around 1990. (Jonathan Daniel/Getty images)
He became the commissioner on September 1, 1989 and presided over the league during the World Series of that year between the giants and the athletics that stopped due to the mortal earthquake in the Bay area.
Vincent was commissioned during the closure of the owners of 1990, and delivered a permanent suspension to the owner of the New York Yankees, George Steinbrenner, who was reinstated by the successor of Vincent, Bud Selig.
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Commissioner Fay Vincent was commissioned during the closure of the 1990 owners, and delivered a permanent suspension to the owner of the New York Yankees, George Steinbrenner. (Phil Huber/Sports Illustrated through Getty Images)
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As baseball commissioner, Vincent angered the owners by becoming the first management official to admit the collusion between teams against free agents after the 1985, ’86 and 87 seasons. He also divided the expansion rates between the leagues and He tried to force the realignment of the National League, changing the divisions of four teams.
“Mr. Vincent served the game for a moment of many challenges, and remained proud of his association with our national hobby throughout his life,” said the current commissioner, Rob Manfred, in a statement.
The baseball commissioner Fay Vincent presents the World Series Trophy to the Walter A. Haas athletics owner after Oakland defeated the giants to win the World Series, on October 28, 1989, in Candlestick Park in San Francisco. (Focus on Sport/Getty images)
In one of his durable acts as commissioner, he presided over an eight members for statistical precision, which eliminated the asterisk he had been next to Roger Maris’s entrance as leader of home runs of the season and eliminated 50 non -hits. The group defined a game without hits as games of nine entries or more that ended without successes.
