| Overall UK Wins: 1 | Overall UK Losses: 0 | Win % 100 |
Date of Birth: February 23, 1908
Date of Death: June 11, 2000
Hometown: Buffalo, NY
Alma Mater: Canisius
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| Date | Matchup | W/L | Score | UK Fouls | Opp Fouls | UK FTA | Opp FTA | UK DQ | Opp DQ | Technicals | Officiating Crew |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12/28/1943 | Kentucky vs. Carnegie Tech | W | 61 - 14 | 8 | 11 | 14 | 10 | 0 | 1 | - | Vince McNamara and Chuck Lyman |
Obituary - Associated Press (June 12, 2000)
Baseball Expert Vince McNamara Dies
BATAVIA, N.Y. (AP) - Vince McNamara, a longtime baseball executive who helped the New York-Pennsylvania League survive, has died at 92.
He died Sunday after a long illness at the state Veterans Home.
McNamara was chairman of baseball's rules committee in the 1970s and served alongside Hall of Famers Joe Cronin, Bill Terry and Hank Greenberg.
McNamara helped the New York-Penn make it through its lean years in the 1950s and Õ60s. He retired as its commissioner in 1983, and the league now has a division named for him.
In his hometown of Buffalo, he spent almost 50 years working for the Parks Department. He designed the baseball diamond at War Memorial Stadium, allowing the Triple-A baseball Buffalo Bisons to share the facility with the NFL Buffalo Bills in 1961.
McNamara always referred to his one and only pro baseball appearance in a game with the 1927 Bisons as one of his most memorable moments. The shortstop went hitless in two at-bats.
McNamara is survived by his son Tim of Rochester, brother Paul Francis, sisters Rosemarie Liebler and Marguerite Mahoney, and two grandchildren.
Services were not immediately announced.
