Word: commissionership
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spiraling salaries and shrinking attendance, thought himself uniquely able to determine "the best interests of baseball" -- which meant using his bully pulpit to intimidate players, ignore the owners and realign teams against their wishes. He confused himself with his job. So last week did his media apologists. "The commissionership is dead," intoned the New York Times, which had not said similar last rites over the U.S. presidency when Nixon resigned...