CBS Evening News - 1992-09-07
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[0:00] [Music]
[0:02] Labor Day and the commissioner of
[0:04] baseball is out of a job. Fay Vincent
[0:06] resigns under fire. In the summer of 92,
[0:10] the presidential candidates invoke the
[0:12] winner of 48.
[0:13] >> Harry Truman ran and is an underdog just
[0:15] as I am. And he liked it and so do I.
[0:18] >> Harry Truman had a sign on his desk. You
[0:20] remember what it said? The buck stops
[0:23] here.
[0:24] >> An eye on America. Tonight, a growing US
[0:27] export workers. But the prospects were
[0:30] uh much brighter in Japan.
[0:34] >> This is the CBS Evening News.
[0:43] >> Good evening. I'm Connie Chung sitting
[0:45] in tonight for Dan Rather. It's a forced
[0:47] out for the commissioner of baseball.
[0:49] Fay Vincent gave in to the demands of
[0:51] most team owners and resigned today,
[0:54] ending a power struggle that had dragged
[0:55] on for months. Bill Lagatuda has our
[0:58] report.
[0:59] >> And uh it would be a very bad mistake
[1:01] for baseball to uh have the owners in a
[1:04] position where they can uh push people
[1:05] out in the middle of a term. After
[1:07] vowing to fight any attempt to remove
[1:10] him as commissioner, Fay Vincent changed
[1:12] his mind and from seclusion in Cape Cod
[1:14] today issued a statement saying the
[1:16] legal battle that most surely would have
[1:18] ensued would not be in the best interest
[1:21] of baseball. Vincent said, "Litigation
[1:23] does nothing to address the serious
[1:25] problems of baseball. I cannot govern as
[1:28] commissioner without the consent of the
[1:30] owners to be governed." Last week, the
[1:32] owners voted 18 to9 that Vincent should
[1:35] go. But those clubs voting in favor of
[1:38] this resolution will not vote in favor
[1:40] of the reelection of Commi