Fay Vincent, who became an unexpected baseball commissioner in 1989 following the death of A. Bartlett Giamatti and then was forced out three years later by

In his second month as the commissioner of baseball, Fay Vincent, working by candlelight, open-collared shirt and a proper low-volume sense of empathy and persp

He presided in a period of union strife, the emergence of steroid use, the banning of Pete Rose and an earthquake that rattled a World Series.