Chances are even the most ardent baseball fan doesn't know his name. But, though his coach at old Sea Cliff High School joked he couldn't catch a baseball with a bushel basket, for decades Edward W.

He presided over the annual Hall induction ceremony in Cooperstown, N.Y., for many years. But he also helped keep one star, Pete Rose, from being part of it. By Richard Sandomir Edward Stack, who as ...