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...broken columns, boxed poems and spots of color and photographs enhance rather than vulgarize. Pieces are shorter than before but cut deeper -- especially 'News from Hell,' concerning the events in Sarajevo by new contributor Anna Husarska. Yet tradition has not been entirely scrapped: see Roger Angell's valedictory to Fay Vincent, recently decapitated commissioner of baseball. Miraculously, after a long arid spell the cartoons are funny again -- particularly those by Lee Lorenz, Danny Shanahan and Leo Cullum ('This is my husband, Greg, and Greg's jacket from a previous marriage...
LIKE A BATTER WHO GLARES STEADILY AT THE UMpire after being called out on strikes, baseball commissioner Fay Vincent waited four days before submitting his resignation last week. The owners of major league teams had earlier "requested" that he leave. Milwaukee Brewers owner Bud Selig took on Vincent's duties. His executive council will select a new commissioner and devise a plan for bargaining with the players' union this winter -- a strategy that could lead to a 1993 spring-training lockout...
Baseball's owners tell Fay Vincent to clean out his locker...
These debates will have to wait, for the baseball hierarchy is engaged in the ugly spectacle of sliding outside the foul lines and getting its uniform soiled. The combatants are Fay Vincent, the eighth commissioner of baseball, and the majority of team owners, who have chafed under his three-year reign. In Chicago last week, the dissidents convened an extraordinary meeting -- an Apalachin summit of every capo di tutti baseball capi -- and told Vincent, 54, to clean out his locker. By a vote of 18 to 9 (with one abstention), the owners declared that "the major league clubs...
...Tribune Co. vice president and general council David Hiller, after a federal judge reversed baseball commissioner Fay Vincent's plan to move the Tribune's Chicago Cubs from the National League East to its Western division