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Former Major League Baseball Commissioner Francis T. "Fay" Vincent Jr. discussed some of the most pressing issues facing America's favorite pastime before a packed audience at the Institute of Politics last night...
Baseball and Public Policy. Address by Fay Vincent, former commissioner, Major League Baseball. Kennedy School of Government, Arco Forum...
...that created it: too resilient to be counted out no matter how dire the forecasts. If the game can survive cartoonish owners (George Steinbrenner, Marge Schott), self-indulgent players (the entire New York Mets roster), 19th century labor relations and a defrocked commissioner (the job has been vacant since Fay Vincent was forced out a year ago), perhaps this latest wild-card wackiness will prove to be little more than an unfortunate rain delay. But don't wait till next year; this may be our last and best September...
Last year, the owners of the 26 major league baseball teams, in gross violation of major league baseball policy and tradition, fired Fay Vincent as baseball commissioner. In the ensuing months, those owners have moved to destroy popular support for The Game throughout the country. And by doing so, they have seriously compromised its future...
What a feeble sense of priorities Harvard students have today, and how pathetically provincial you are. Disgusted, S.P. Fay...