Photo: Mario Cantu/Andrea Renault/Zuma Press/Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Fortune Media Fay Vincent, who died Saturday ... as commissioner of Major League Baseball. Much to my dismay, I never ...

George Grande remembers standing behind the batting cage at Oakland’s Coliseum, chatting with Fay Vincent, the new commissioner of baseball, before Game 2 of the 1989 World Series.

NEW YORK — Fay Vincent, who became an unexpected baseball commissioner in 1989 following the death of A. Bartlett Giamatti and then was forced out three years later by owners intent on a labor ...

FILE - Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent announces the settlement of the 32-day lockout after players and owners agreed to a four-year contract in New York, March 19, 1990. At right is Milwaukee ...

Baseball’s former commissioner, who died Sunday, was pushed out of his seat after a short tenure. But you can’t say he didn’t mean well. Vincent died Monday at the age of 86. / RVR Photos ...

Vincent was quickly elected Giamatti’s successor and presided over a turbulent time in the sport. Giamatti had recently banned Pete Rose from baseball for life for gambling on baseball ...

Fay Vincent was commissioner of baseball for only three years. Perhaps that is not surprising, given his frosty relationship with many owners during that time, but given how much happened during ...