Fay Vincent
Fay Vincent
Francis Thomas "Fay" Vincent, Jr.is a former entertainment lawyer and sports executive who served as the eighth Commissioner of Major League Baseball from September 13, 1989 to September 7, 1992...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLawyer
Date of Birth29 May 1938
CountryUnited States of America
great proud sadness sorry
It's only a great sadness that we didn't do this 30 or 40 years ago. I'm sorry that we're late, but I'm proud that we're doing it.
effort
This is an effort that is 30 years too late. This should have been done when a lot of them were alive.
guess maybe
This is 10 times, maybe 50 times more difficult. I would guess it would take at least a year.
almost asking clause deal explain irrelevant labor people players protected
A lot of people are asking why doesn't Selig just invoke the 'best interests' clause and deal with this. I try to explain to them that the 'best interest' clause is irrelevant in labor because of all the players protected (federal law). ... He has almost no discretion. He's pretty limited.
baseball ground high moral nightmare rose sorts
The thing that makes this different from the Rose investigation is the scope. This could take (Mitchell) into all sorts of nooks and crannies. This will be a nightmare for everybody, but baseball has to get the moral high ground back.
attention player sought
I think it would have been a lot better for him to say, I did it and I'm sorry, McGwire was never one to show a lot of emotion on the field, not a player who sought attention and craved to be thought of as a nice guy.
invite senator
It's tempting, because as one senator said to me, 'We know if we invite baseball down, we'll draw a crowd'.
believe hard
I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.
interest taking
It's not in baseball's interest or the players' interest to be taking this stance. It's the people's game.
ballots builders candidates executives final hall represent worthy
The final ballots represent players, managers, executives and builders who are top-tier candidates and worthy of review for consideration for election to the Hall of Fame.
certainly might toward
Certainly toward the end of the season, you and I could be in a ballpark and they might say the crowd is 30,000, and we could look around and see that there was no more than 10,000.
coup good
This is a coup for commissioner Bud Selig. I'm surprised it's as good as it is.
almost choice choices congress instinct public second sort
So his choices are he can do nothing and sort of fudge it -- but you can't get away with that. The public and Congress are going to want something done. ... I've said this about Bud, and I think I'm right, his first instinct is always wrong. The second is almost always right.
baseball built easy event field focus great hit home left nobody played run small wants
One of the things that baseball did, and nobody wants to focus on, is baseball built small ballparks. They made it easy to hit home runs. Look at Houston; their left field is a joke. Baseball played to the home run as if it was the only great event in the game.