As Connecticut’s baseball community remembers Fay Vincent, who died at 86 Sunday, as a commissioner willing to act in the game’s interest.

It was with heavy hearts that we at ‘America’ learned of the death of Fay Vincent Jr. in Vero Beach, Fla., on Saturday at the age of 86.

Fay Vincent, whose idealism and self-styled independence as baseball commissioner clashed with owners eager for war with the players’ union, leading to his resignation under pressure in 1992, died on Saturday in Vero Beach, Fla. He was 86.