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...plate-the Yankees in gleaming white, the Giants in grey road uniforms. The announcer asked everyone to stand for a moment's silence "in the cause of peace." Accompanied by Guy Lombardo's band, Lucy Monroe sang the Star-Spangled Banner. Basebell's new Commissioner Ford Frick threw out the first ball, and the series began...
Unanimous Approval. The decision was approved just as unanimously by most of baseball. Frick, now 56 and greying, never realized his ambition of becoming a big league first baseman like his idol Cap Anson.* But even as an English professor (Colorado College), he never strayed far from the game. During World War I he worked with the War Department's rehabilitation division, then returned to a job as sportwriter for the Colorado Springs Telegraph. In 1919, after Arthur Brisbane saw some of his stories, Frick was called to New York...
...when he was assigned to cover the New York Yankees, hard-working Ford Frick kept his fellow sportwriters hopping to keep up with his early-to-bed & early-to-rise routine. He became a good friend and golfing partner of Commissioner Landis; in 1934 he was chosen head of the National League Service Bureau, which compiles the league's statistics. Within the year-a month before his 40th birthday - Frick was the National League president...
...This Is America." The owners know that they have put no yes-man in the seven-year, $65,000-a-year job. Frick's biggest problem as National League president came in 1947 when he got wind of a projected players' strike against the admission of Negro Jackie Robinson into the league. Frick confronted the players with an ultimatum; "If you do this, you are through, and I don't care if it wrecks the league for ten years. You cannot do this because this is America...
...Frick inherits some tough problems-falling attendance everywhere, radio and TV competition, West Coast howls for a third league, and, most serious, Congress' investigation of baseball's reserve clause (which prevents a player from selling his services to the highest bidder). Unlike his predecessor, Frick is too cagey to put his foot in his mouth by way of opening it. Baseball's problems can be ironed out, he feels, but "I don't want to go saying things now that will sound silly later. I am not a reformer. You have to make changes slowly...