You still see that to this day -- in the 2006 CBA, the owners had to kick back $12 million in a settlement over collusion in 2002-03.

Vincent's only problem was that he wasn't a willing puppet of the owners. Not only did he call them out for being thieves, he also owned a map -- the last straw was him trying to correct the National League so the Braves and Reds were in the NL East and the Cubs and Cardinals in the NL West.