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
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I don't think Bud wants a major confrontation. On other hand he wants major changes, and that's going to lead to a major confrontation, ... The union is very well run. They win all the legal fights and baseball has to fold. There isn't much history that says the owners have a very good chance.
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I don't think the individuals are going to be willing to discuss their individual votes. We agreed we would not do that.
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The reason we care is these are games we play, and the defining part of a game is the rules. And if you don't follow rules, you don't have a game. Then you have a movie or professional wrestling.
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We gave each candidate a fair hearing, and I think the results will speak for themselves.
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The players are protected under the federal statutes. That's a mistake a lot of people have made, thinking the commissioner can do whatever he wants. His powers over the players are very limited.
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It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
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The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't.
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I can't be optimistic. I can be hopeful.
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What a great sadness there is that we didn't do this 30 or 40 years ago.
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You have to focus on the one guy. Otherwise, you'd never finish the job and it would wind up costing millions and millions. But you've got facts to go on now, and it would behoove Bonds to cooperate. I think he really has to cooperate if he wants his records to count for anything. Stonewalling won't work.
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This is a coup for commissioner Bud Selig. I'm surprised it's as good as it is.
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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.
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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.
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It's not in baseball's interest or the players' interest to be taking this stance. It's the people's game.