If you’re a fan of a certain age, and I mean, if you are older than me, you probably know quite a bit about this second phase of the Commissioner of Baseball. Fay Vincent is put in the job after A. Bart Giamatti’s death, and in his first six months in office, oversees the 1990 spring training lockout, and the lifetime ban of George Steinbrenner — that ban later was overturned, of course, but at the time, the dude was supposed to be gone.
The banishment of the sport’s most famous (or infamous, I suppose) owner might be the most catchy thing about Vincent’s tenure, but the most important thing is that 1990 lockout.