Word: kuhn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After 14 years in a box seat, Kuhn is returned to the grandstand...
...only Judge Landis or Borne Kuhn were alive. -An old baseball writer's lament...
Wherever Bowie Kuhn has his shirts stuffed after next August, when baseball plans to let its tallest and most erect commissioner go, at least he will be able to cheer at the ball yard again, a sore deprivation these past 14 years. "I can't have a favorite team or a rooting interest," he once said with a sigh. "Sad, isn't it?" For Kuhn...
...descendant of Frontiersman Jim Bowie, who struck out swinging at the Alamo, Kuhn is not exactly a buckskin man or most people's idea of a romantic. Standing 6 ft. 5 in., he was never much of an athlete, a "lousy ballplayer" by his own reckoning, better suited for basketball but in love with baseball. As a calm, scholarly child in Washington, B.C., already too stiff to ask the Senators' players for autographs, Kuhn whiled away early 1940s summers manning the scoreboard for a dollar a day, just to have some part in the wondrous events at Griffith...
...good of baseball. Turner watched the next game, a victory, from the stands, but a couple of days later he was in uniform again. He took batting practice, and was about to try his hand at strategy once more when a stern telegram arrived from Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn. When Turner phoned Kuhn, the exasperated commissioner uttered the single memorable sentence of a career devoted to prudent locution...