Yale’s head baseball coach is now an endowed position, following a donation from former Major League Baseball Commissioner Francis T. “Fay” Vincent Jr.
Vincent Jr. made the donation to honor his late father, Fay Vincent, a Torrington native who captained the baseball and football teams at Yale.
Vincent Jr. graduated from Yale with a law degree in 1963 and went on to become an executive in several industries and, perhaps most relevant, was commissioner of the MLB.
His father, though, was a Yale athletics legend. He still holds the university’s baseball record for triples in a single season. In football, Fay Vincent was selected to play in the East-West Shrine Bowl during his senior year.
After graduating from the university, Fay Vincent continued to play amateur baseball and eventually became both a baseball umpire and National Football League referee.
