Peter Victor Ueberroth (/jubr/; produced September 2, 1937) is an American executive. As a state of his hiring, Ueberroth raised the commissioner’s fining skill from $5,000 to $250,000. His salary was increased to some reported $450,000, almost twice what Kuhn was paid. Ueberroth managed to arbitrate the disagreement and had the umpires back to work prior to the League Championship Series were over. Another summer, Ueberroth worked behind the scenes to restrict a players’ strike to a day before a fresh labor agreement was worked out with all the Players Association. Throughout the span of his stint as commissioner, Ueberroth reinstated two Hall of Famers, Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle, who was prohibited from working for Major League Baseball by Kuhn due to their organizations with gambling casinos. Additionally, Ueberroth suspended numerous players due to cocaine use, negotiated a $1.2 billion television contract with CBS, and began the investigation against Pete Rose’s gambling habits. In 1985, Ueberroth’s first complete year in office, the League Championship Series enlarged from a greatest-of-five series to a best-of-seven series. At his urging, the Chicago Cubs decided to install lights at Wrigley Field rather than reimburse the leagues for lost night game sales. Ueberroth subsequently discovered a fresh revenue stream in the type of getting big corporations to cover the privilege of getting their products supported by Major League Baseball.