The former commissioner, who died Sunday at 86, spoke of his strong opposition to sports betting in a November interview with The Athletic.

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 owners intent on a labor confrontation with players, has died. He was 86.

Fay Vincent, the former MLB commissioner who banned Yankees owner George Steinbrenner for life in 1990 before his reinstatement three years later and was involved in banning Pete Rose for life for