Post by NJTank on Mar 10, 2016 1:48:36 GMT -5
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1951: J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI turns down a $65,000 a year salary to become commissioner of baseball. The commissioner's job opened up at end of 1950, when owners voted against renewing the contract of Happy Chandler, who had held the post since replacing Kennesaw Mountain Landis in 1945. Owners would eventually pick NL President Ford C. Frick to be the third commissioner of baseball.
