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Bowie Kent Kuhn (born October 28, 1926) was commissioner of Major League Baseball from February 4, 1969 to September 30, 1984. He was born in Takoma Park, Maryland and served as legal counsel for Major League Baseball owners prior to his election as commissioner.
His tenure was marked by labor strikes, owner disenchantment, and the end of baseball's reserve clause, yet baseball enjoyed unprecedented attendance and television contracts during the same time frame. Kuhn suspended numerous players for drug involvement and in 1983 barred Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle from the sport due to their involvement in casino promotion; both were reinstated in 1985. And in 1976, when the Oakland Athletics attempted to sell several players to the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees for $3.5 million, Kuhn blocked the deals on the grounds that they would be bad for the game.
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