Word: coleman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Coleman and Davis just sped away, off to an outdoor barbecue at Davis' home. Coleman drove off, according to people in the crowd where the firecracker went off, laughing...
...hard to know exactly what Coleman was laughing at. It couldn't have been his performance on the field, which has been so poor that the Mets, I think, would stand a chance in court if they sued him for beach of his $4 million a year contract. And the outfielder was probably not laughing at the injuries he caused, because Coleman dashed away so fast that he hardly knew anything was wrong on the other side of the chain-link fence...
Maybe, just maybe, Coleman was laughing for an entirely different reason. Maybe Coleman knew that with baseball's current vacuum of leadership, there was no one running. The Grand Old Game to make sure he wouldn't get away with...
Landis, like future commissioners, had authority to act in the best interests of the game. He could have (and as a man with knowledge of the law, would have) suspended Coleman or even banned him from baseball. He, like the commissioners who followed him, had the authority to protect baseball from the people who play The Game and own the teams...
...have a national pastime in which Bud Selig looks after the owners, an umpires union looks after the men in blue and a player's union protects criminals such as Vince Coleman...