Fay Vincent is a former entertainment and business executive who served as the commissioner of baseball from 1989 to 1992. This volume is the third in a series drawn from his Baseball Oral History Project. The previous two volumes, The Only Game in Town "and We Would Have Played for Nothing, "include ballplayers' reminiscences of the 1930s and 1940s, and the 1950s and 1960s, respectively.