STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) Former Major League Baseball player and manager Bobby Valentine is taking a swing at politics, announcing Friday that he’s running for mayor of his Connecticut hometown.
Valentine, 70, who currently serves as the athletic director at Sacred Heart University, posted a video on social media and said he’ll run as an independent candidate in Stamford.
“The greatest commodity I have is my time and I want to give my time and my energy and my wherewithal back to the city that has given me so much over my lifetime,” he said.
Valentine, a Stamford native, was a three-sport high school star in the city.
Ex-MLB commissioner Fay Vincent slams successor Rob Manfred s decision to move the All-Star Game from Atlanta to Denver over Georgia s voter law, saying baseball can t become a weapon in the culture wars
Ex-MLB commissioner Fay Vincent penned an opinion piece slamming Rob Manfred over the mistake of moving the All-Star Game from Atlanta to Denver
MLB is one of several corporations pressuring Georgia to drop its new voter law, which limits mail-in voting and allows for greater legislative control of elections
Critics of the law say it unfairly targets minority voters in metropolitan areas
Vincent, 82, served as Major League commissioner from 1989 until 1992
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