In his second month as the commissioner of baseball, Fay Vincent, working by candlelight, open-collared shirt and a proper low-volume sense of empathy and persp

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 confrontation with players, has died. He was 86.

Former MLB commissioner Fay Vincent has died at the age of 86. MLB commissioner Rob Manfred issued a statement about Vincent in the wake of his

Former Major League Baseball Commissioner and Connecticut native Fay Vincent died Saturday, Feb. 1, at his home in Florida. He was 86. Vincent, who was born in Waterbury and spent most of his life after baseball in New Canaan,

Fay Vincent, whose idealism and self-styled independence as baseball commissioner clashed with owners eager for war with the players’ union, leading to his resignation under pressure in 1992, died on Saturday in Vero Beach, Fla. He was 86.

He presided in a period of union strife, the emergence of steroid use, the banning of Pete Rose and an earthquake that rattled a World Series.