A former lawyer, Bowie Kuhn served as baseball commissioner from 1969 to 1984. His achievements included raising baseball's attendance level, procuring lucrative television contracts, and sponsoring night baseball in the World Series. Despite...

Bowie Kent Kuhn (October 28 1926 – March 15 2007) was an American lawyer and sports administrator who served as the 5th commissioner of Major League Baseball from February 4, 1969 to September 30, 1984. He served as legal counsel for Major League...

Bowie Kuhn, 80, a lawyer whose first job in baseball was operating the old Griffith Stadium scoreboard while growing up in Washington and who would go on to serve as commissioner of baseball during a particularly tumultuous time in the game's history, died March...

HARDBALL The Education of a Baseball Commissioner By Bowie Kuhn Times Books. 453 pp. $19.95 THREE YEARS AGO, after a decade and a half on the job, Bowie Kuhn was fired as baseball commissioner by a small minority of the game's owners. It was...

Bud Selig complained Saturday that Bowie Kuhn was never appreciated for his success as baseball commissioner, saying the changes Kuhn oversaw in his 15 years on the job have helped baseball reach the level of success it currently has."I think the reason we are where...

Gil Hodges and Ron Santo top the players' ballot and Doug Harvey and Marvin Miller head the officials' hopefuls in the Hall of Fame Veterans Committee vote to be announced Tuesday.Since the Veterans Committee was revamped for the 2003 election, no one has been chosen...