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- <title>
- Sep. 21, 1992: A League of Their Own
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Sep. 21, 1992 Hollywood & Politics
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK
- SOCIETY, Page 20
- A League of Their Own
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- <p>Baseball's bosses are back in charge after Fay Vincent resigns
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> Vincent, who shepherded the sport in a troubled year of
- spiraling salaries and shrinking attendance, thought himself
- uniquely able to determine "the best interests of baseball"--which meant using his bully pulpit to intimidate players, ignore
- the owners and realign teams against their wishes. He confused
- himself with his job. So last week did his media apologists.
- "The commissionership is dead," intoned the New York Times,
- which had not said similar last rites over the U.S. presidency
- when Nixon resigned.
- </p>
- <p> Before becoming commissioner, Vincent worked as a movie
- executive. Selig used to be a car salesman. Somewhere between
- the fantasy of the first job and the reality of the second--between a field of dreams and a parking lot full of lemons--lies the future of ba
- keep America's pastime from doddering past its time.
- </p>
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