The post of Commissioner of Baseball was offered to J. Edgar Hoover in March of 1951. However, in spite of being a fan of the game, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation turned down the job. Several owners had been dissatisfied with the direction of Commissioner A.B. “Happy” Chandler and hoped Hoover would bring the type of leadership they were looking for. Hoover opted, instead, to stay with the FBI until his death in 1972. Chandler would remain baseball commissioner until July 1951, and was eventually replaced by Ford Frick.
“Booooooo! Hey, ump, you should be wearing a dress.”
“Umm, that would be the Commissioner, actually.”
:’D
It’s too bad that Hoover didn’t become the baseball commissioner. He would’ve been far less harmful to America in a relatively innocuous position such as that.
Glen