Word: vincent
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According to History Head Tutor Caroline C. Ford, for the first time in several years the department will be offering its survey in American history, the History 71a/71b sequence, taught by newcomer Instructor in History Ronald Yanosky and Lecturer on History Vincent Tompkins...
Baseball's owners tell Fay Vincent to clean out his locker...
...Vincent is not especially popular either, with owners or fans. This year, infuriated that three New York Yankees had testified to an arbitrator on behalf of their suspended teammate Steve Howe, Vincent huffily chastised the Yankee brass for disloyalty (though he later apologized). He peremptorily ordained that the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals would shift to the National League's Western Division, while the Reds and Atlanta Braves would move east. When the Cubs took their protest to court, the commissioner's office dithered in devising the 1993 schedule. (Early last week Vincent relented, saying that the teams would...
None of these are capital crimes, exactly. Neither are Vincent's purported sins against the owners: that he refused to cede the role of mediator in future labor disputes, or that he disapproves of the right of TV superstations like those run by the Braves' and Cubs' ownerships to cut into other teams' viewership by airing their games in the same cities. Perhaps the dispute is a matter of style. It could be that Vincent's policies don't bug the owners so much as his firm and frosty belief that he has the power to make policy. He also...
...Baseball's other difficulties are too serious," says former Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, "for the owners to linger over this for long." Through the expected litigation -- in which Vincent will be represented by Brendan Sullivan, Oliver North's attorney in the Iran-contra hearings -- the owners will keep pressing for Vincent's resignation, because they want a stronger advocate with a weaker mandate. Probably there is no white knight for the owners, but it's sweet to daydream about the perfect candidate. A man of stature and compromise. A man whose son is an owner of the Texas Rangers. If George...