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4 quotes found searching on Position: 5th Commissioner of Baseball, 1969-1984
He had about him a touch of royalty.
Bowie Kent Kuhn
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5th Commissioner of Baseball, 1969-1984
HOF 2008
I believe in the Rip Van Winkle Theory: that a man from 1910 must be able to wake up after being asleep for seventy years, walk into a ballpark and understand baseball perfectly.
Bowie Kent Kuhn
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5th Commissioner of Baseball, 1969-1984
HOF 2008
My battles with (Yankees owner George) Steinbrenner were an everyday part of life.
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5th Commissioner of Baseball, 1969-1984
HOF 2008
I would urge that Baseball in selecting a new commissioner realize that if he is going to be effective, several things have to be so. He's got to be a strong commissioner, strong in several ways. Strong as a personality who will have the necessary courage in the face of relentless problems and pressures to do what is necessary for the good of the game And he must be a strong commissioner in the sense of the powers he is given, the protection his office is given It's all well and good to say, "here's a good man, here's a good man to do the job." But he must have more than that. He must have more than I have had. And if we can achieve the necessary changes, and I think we must -- and I think he must insist on it, incidentally -- then we can so improve the position of the commissioner that he will be able to face the very tough challenges that I have outlined here i the prior part of my remarks. And I think it's vital that he be empowered to face those challenges. A little look at history will take you back to 1921, when a curly-haired old tough-minded federal judge was about to become commissioner. He said I want more than a legal document. He said I want a moral covenant with ownership to steadfastly support the commissioner. I want a moral covenant by which they say, "We will stand behind you come thick or thin regardless of what our individual personal feelings might be about its rightness or wrongness. We have given you a tough job and we will stand behind you and we will support you. There will be no knives in your back."
In 1984
Bowie Kent Kuhn
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5th Commissioner of Baseball, 1969-1984
HOF 2008
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