Word: fay
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...measure a baseball fan by his boyhood heroes. On the wall behind Fay Vincent's desk is the original artwork from Whitey Ford's 1953 Topps baseball card, a talisman of the bygone era when the New York Yankees symbolized success, stability and smug superiority. If Joe DiMaggio personified grace, and Mickey Mantle represented God-given talent, then Ford, the gritty little lefty ace of the pitching staff, was guile elevated to Hall of Fame standards. This quality is not lost on the baseball commissioner, who says with reverence, "He had the greatest pick-off move to first...
Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent has succeeded where Yankee fans have failed: he got George Steinbrenner to give up running the worst team in the majors...
...YORK--George Steinbrenner was forced to resign as principal partner of the New York Yankees yesterday by baseball commissioner Fay Vincent, all but ending his turbulent reign as the team's owner...
...family knew. Her roommates knew. But Jennifer Y. Wu '90 was thoroughly surprised when Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson announced yesterday that she had won the 1990 Fay Prize--the highest honor bestowed upon an undergraduate by Radcliffe College...
...might hasten agreement on a new contract and get the game going on time, before any serious money was lost. The events of last week, though, proved the cynics correct. Talks between the club owners and the Major League Players Association remained deadlocked. In an eleventh-hour gesture, Commissioner Fay Vincent offered to order the training camps open if the players' union promised not to strike later in the season. The union response was prompt: no deal. With that, hopes that opening day would take place as scheduled, on April 2, virtually vanished...