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* Fay Vincent ( born 1938 ), full name Francis Thomas Vincent, American former entertainment lawyer and sports executive, commissioner of Major League Baseball 1989 – 1992
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Selig became an increasingly vocal opponent of Commissioner Fay Vincent, and soon became the leader of a group of owners seeking his removal.
The same year, New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner was reinstated from a lifelong suspension that was instituted by Selig's predecessor Fay Vincent.
* 1990 – George Steinbrenner is forced by Commissioner Fay Vincent to resign as principal partner of New York Yankees for hiring Howie Spira to " get dirt " on Dave Winfield.
The voting committee was chaired by Fay Vincent, Major League Baseball's eighth Commissioner and an Honorary Director of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
He had previously applied for reinstatement in 1992, but then-commissioner Fay Vincent also never acted on it.
James reproached commissioner Giamatti and his successor, Fay Vincent, for their acceptance of the Dowd Report as the final word on Rose's gambling.
Giamatti's friend and successor as baseball commissioner, Fay Vincent, wrote in The Last Commissioner that Giamatti's official religious view was agnosticism.
Baseball's owners soon selected Fay Vincent, Giamatti's close friend and baseball's first-ever deputy commissioner, as the new commissioner.
When the film returned to New York, Beatty told Fay Vincent, then Columbia's chief executive officer, that May couldn't direct.
Francis Thomas " Fay " Vincent, Jr. ( born May 29, 1938 ) is a former entertainment lawyer and sports executive who served as the eighth Commissioner of Major League Baseball from September 13, 1989 to September 7, 1992.
Per Fay Vincent's interview on WFAN ( NY ) on July 14, 2010 ( the day after Steinbrenner died ), Vincent had wanted to suspend Steinbrenner for only two years.
Fay Vincent has also been critical of Major League Baseball's handling of the dreaded strike in 1994.
Fay Vincent also believes that the only franchises in Major League Baseball to have a chance to win are the ones that have their own regional sports networks.
MLB Commissioner Fay Vincent later overruled this decision, declaring that as long as the transaction was completed by the deadline, the player need not physically be in the new team's city to be eligible to play in the playoffs.
Fay and born
Fay Wray ( born Vina Fay Wray ; September 15, 1907 – August 8, 2004 ) was a Canadian-American actress most noted for playing the female lead in King Kong.
Joan Crawford ( March 23, 1905 – May 10, 1977 ), born Lucille Fay LeSueur, was an American actress in film, television and theatre.
Crawford was born Lucille Fay LeSueur in San Antonio, the third child of Tennessee-born Thomas E. LeSueur ( 1868 – 1938 ), a laundry laborer of English, French Huguenot and Jersey ancestry, and Anna Bell Johnson ( 1884 – 1958 ), who was of Swedish and Irish descent.
* Peter David ( born 1956 ), science fiction / fantasy author who spent his adolescence in Verona and has used it as a location in his fiction work, such as being the home location of villain Morgan le Fay in his first novel, Knight Life.
Humphrey was born Muriel Fay Buck in Huron, South Dakota, daughter of Andrew E. Buck and his wife, the former Jessie Mae Pierce.
Ritter was born in Burbank, California, the son of actress Dorothy Fay ( née Southworth ) and singing cowboy / matinee-star Tex Ritter, who was of German descent.
Ritter was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Nancy Morgan and ( the late ) John Ritter, and the grandson of musician / actor, Tex Ritter, and Dorothy Fay.
Joyce DeWitt, who is of no relation to actress Fay DeWitt, was born April 23, 1949 in Wheeling, West Virginia, and grew up in Speedway, Indiana, a suburb of Indianapolis.
Boozman was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, the son of Marie E. ( née Nichols ) and Fay Winford Boozman, Jr. ( 1923 – 1991 ).< ref >
E. Fay Jones, ( first name Euine which is pronounced U-wan and is an old Welsh form of John ), was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, on January 31, 1921.
* Sir Michael Fay ( banker ) ( born 1949 ), New Zealand merchant banker in the America Cup's Hall of Fame
* Michael P. Fay ( born 1975 ), American teenager sentenced to be caned in Singapore in 1994 for vandalism
Vaughan was born in Barnet, London to an engineer father, Randall, and a psychotherapist mother, Fay.
Godwin was born Fay Simmonds in Berlin, Germany, the daughter of Sidney Simmonds, a British diplomat who had married Stella MacLean, an American artist.
She was born Dorothy Fay Southworth in Prescott, Arizona, the daughter of Harry T. Southworth and Harriet Fay Fox.
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