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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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.
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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.
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In some respects, it's the most damaging and difficult mess for baseball since the White Sox scandal in 1919.
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He's in a very tough situation, and that's why I think it's the worst problem for baseball since the Black Sox. Because it's so amorphous and so big and so murky. ... For the first time Selig has the awkward position of having to authorize an investigation where he may be a target. No commissioner has ever been in that position.
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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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It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
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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 Bud really has any choice now. If he does nothing, Congress will surely jump in again. They're going want answers about Bonds. I think there's very little room for Bud to maneuver here. Baseball needs to have its own independent investigation.
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The committee's focus is on what we positively know about Buck, and that is he was a very important part of our baseball history, not just Negro League history, and he was honored by being a very strong candidate for election.
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I think the investigation is the right step. I don't think the issue is punishment, I think it's: 'Shouldn't the players be called to task for cheating, even if there is no punishment?' I think baseball has to recapture the moral high ground.
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I respect him because he's very bright. I think he's very committed to his franchises.
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Recent indications are up to 50 percent of the players in the 90s were using steroids. It puts a real cloud over that period in baseball.
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I think he should hire somebody like John Dowd or set up a committee. He needs to do that, maybe headed by Mario Cuomo or George Mitchell, somebody of that ilk.
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I think he (Selig) is probably better able to get support among owners, ... But they're trying to roll back 25 years of labor agreements in one round. I was telling them the best you can do is incremental improvement -Ê it's going to take a long time to straighten out this. They didn't want to hear that.