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Former baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent is making a multimillion dollar donation to Yale to endow the baseball coach's position there in the name of his father. Francis T. Vincent Jr. was baseball commissioner from 1989-92 and is a 1963 graduate of Yale Law School. His father, Francis T. Vincent, was a 1931 graduate of Yale who captained the football and baseball teams. Vincent's father played baseball at Yale under coach Smoky Joe Wood, who went 3-1 as the Boston Red Sox won the 1912 World Series. He became an official of high school, college and NFL games.
