Fay Vincent, Baseball Commissioner During 3 Years of Turmoil, Dies at 86

MLB Commissioner Fay Vincent speaks to reporters before a game in the 1990 NLCS between the Cincinnati Reds and Pittsburgh Pirates at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania., in October 1990. Jim Commentucci/Getty Images

NEW YORK—Fay Vincent, who became an unexpected baseball commissioner in 1989 following the death of A. Bartlett Giamatti and then was forced out three years later by owners intent on a labor confrontation with players, has died. He was 86.

Vincent had undergone radiation and chemotherapy for bladder cancer and developed complications that included bleeding, said his wife, Christina. He asked that treatment be stopped and died Saturday at a hospital in Vero Beach, Florida.