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...going into the final period. Jim Dullin kicked a 20-yard field goal to put Rutgers ahead, 30-27, with three minutes remaining. With 45 seconds left, Columbia's Marty Domres passed to Rich Brown for a seven-yard score. Not to be outdone, Rtuger's Fred Eckert passed to Jack Emmer for a seven-yard touchdown with 14 seconds remaining. That was all, however...
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...