William Eckert: The Fourth Commissioner of Major League Baseball
Before the baseball owners dropped all pretense and just elevated used car salesman Bud Selig to the catbird seat, they tried various stratagems to keep their iron grip on baseball. One was hiring U.S. Air Force Lt. General William Eckert to be commissioner. That the general hadn't seen a baseball game in a month of Billy Sundays, not had ever had a public sector job, didn't deter them. However, he proved so inept the owners, fearing he wouldn't back them up in their union busting activities in their desire to keep baseball players perpetually in serfdom, gave General Eckert the sack at the end of 1968.
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