Word: eckert
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Veeck urged that William Eckert, the newly elected Commissioner of baseball, use the minor leagues to test needed changes in the game. He added that in the past 40, years, two of the game's only satisfactory innovations have been the elimination of colors from uniforms and the compulsory removal of gloves from the field...
...only experience William Dole Eckert, 56, had with baseball was as a high school first baseman back in Madison, Ind. Last week the 20 owners of the major-league ballclubs elected Eckert to succeed Ford Frick for a seven-year term as baseball's $65,000-a-year commissioner...
...theory was that Eckert, a retired lieutenant general, who collected a chestful of medals commanding a B-17 bomber group in Europe and later rose to Comptroller of the Air Force, would give the office back some of the dignity it had lost since autocratic Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis ruled the leagues from 1921 to 1944. So someone around the place would know something about the game, the club owners decided to install a "cabinet" headed by Lee MacPhail, 48, who was born into baseball (his father was once president of the New York Yankees) and who will sell...
...SILENT SKY, by Allan W. Eckert...
...bank of Ohio's Scioto River, sighted down the barrel of his BB gun, and sent a pellet smashing into the brain of a big red-breasted, blue-backed bird. It was the last wild passenger pigeon ever to be sighted. In this indignant, touching book, Allan W. Eckert, author of The Great Auk, details the wanton greed that extinguished this remarkable species and imagines a biography for the last wild survivor that died that morning on the Scioto...