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Los Angeles sports columnist Jim Murray ended a column with a hypothetical quote from Eckert: "I wish everyone a happy and prosperous 1897!"
In a 1967 Peanuts comic strip, Charlie Brown's pitcher's mound gets washed away by a heavy rainstorm. Lucy then suggests, "Why don't you send a letter to Commissioner Eckert, and have him send you a new one?" Charlie Brown thinks little of this idea.
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