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Fay Vincent

Fay Vincent
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Fay Vincent

Fay Vincent is a former entertainment and business executive who served as the commissioner of baseball from 1989 to 1992. This volume is the third in a series drawn from his Baseball Oral History Project. The previous two volumes, The Only Game in Town and We Would Have Played for Nothing, include ballplayers’ reminiscences of the 1930s and 1940s, and the 1950s and 1960s, respectively.

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Excerpt 1 from The Last Commissioner
Dec 08, 2012
It's What's Inside the Lines That Counts will be released on April 05, 2011 in Trade Paperback
Apr 05, 2011
It's What's Inside the Lines That Counts is now available in Trade Paperback
Apr 05, 2011
Excerpt:
Chapter 2 from It's What's Inside the Lines That Counts
Apr 03, 2010
It's What's Inside the Lines That Counts will be released on March 16, 2010 in Hardcover
Mar 16, 2010
It's What's Inside the Lines That Counts is now available in Hardcover
Mar 16, 2010
It's What's Inside the Lines That Counts will be released on March 16, 2010 in eBook
Mar 16, 2010
It's What's Inside the Lines That Counts is now available in eBook
Mar 16, 2010
We Would Have Played for Nothing is now available in Trade Paperback
Apr 07, 2009
We Would Have Played for Nothing will be released on April 07, 2009 in Trade Paperback
Apr 07, 2009
We Would Have Played for Nothing is now available in Trade Paperback
Apr 07, 2009
We Would Have Played for Nothing will be released on April 07, 2009 in eBook
Apr 07, 2009
We Would Have Played for Nothing is now available in eBook
Apr 07, 2009
We Would Have Played for Nothing will be released on April 07, 2009 in Trade Paperback
Dec 19, 2008
We Would Have Played for Nothing will be released on April 01, 2008 in Hardcover
Apr 01, 2008
We Would Have Played for Nothing is now available in Hardcover
Apr 01, 2008

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Hardball Times, November 29, 2012
...came to head the MLBPA. Fehr was there through the tenures of commissioners Peter Ueberroth, Bart Giamatti and Fay Vincent as well as the final days of Kuhn. Commissioners came and went while Don Fehr and the big stick remained. Owners wanted testing for...
Stamford Advocate, October 3, 2012
...Association CEO Edward Reilly; Allan Goodman, of the Institute of International Education and former Major League Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent. Retiring U.S. Republican Sen. Olympia Snow, of Maine, will discuss civility in politics at the next...
SB Nation, January 18, 2013
...inching ever closer to the strike shortened ’94 season. I highly recommend the interview of former MLB commissioner Fay Vincent from 2006 done by Maury Brown of The Business of Baseball. It has great baseball insight into the labor dealing of the...
Boston Pilot, January 18, 2013
...Rose went astray on gambling it was the commissioners who brought him down. Bart Giamatti grounded him and Fay Vincent emphatically reaffirmed his ineligibility for such honors as the Hall of Fame. Please understand the commissioner doesn't control what...
Dorchester Reporter, January 17, 2013
...Rose went astray on gambling it was the commissioners who brought him down. Bart Giamatti grounded him and Fay Vincent emphatically re-affirmed his ineligibility for such honors as the Hall of Fame. Please understand that the commissioner doesn’t...
Bellingham Herald, January 14, 2013
...really heartfelt. Whatever they do they have very strong convictions about. It's not a game, at all." Fay Vincent, the former baseball commissioner, is among those who fought with Fehr but still compliment his conviction. As it turns out, this might've...
Raleigh News & Observer, January 14, 2013
...really heartfelt. Whatever they do they have very strong convictions about. It's not a game, at all." Fay Vincent, the former baseball commissioner, is among those who fought with Fehr but still compliment his conviction. As it turns out, this might've...
Kansas City Star, January 14, 2013
...really heartfelt. Whatever they do they have very strong convictions about. It's not a game, at all." Fay Vincent, the former baseball commissioner, is among those who fought with Fehr but still compliment his conviction. As it turns out, this might've...
Individual.com, January 14, 2013
...really heartfelt. Whatever they do they have very strong convictions about. It's not a game, at all." Fay Vincent, the former baseball commissioner, is among those who fought with Fehr but still compliment his conviction. As it turns out, this might've...