Bowie Kuhn Biography
Bowie Kuhn
Born: Oct. 28, 1926Died: March 15, 2007
Baseball commissioner
Elected commissioner on Feb. 4, 1969 and served until Sept. 30, 1984; kept Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle out of baseball for their employment with casinos; handed down one-year suspensions of several players for drug involvement; nixed Charlie Finley's sale of three players for $3.5 million; baseball enjoyed unprecedented attendance and television contracts during his reign.
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