Harridge was president of the American League, one of the two major leagues of American baseball, from 1931 to 1959. He was known for all of his hard work, which included carrying the bags of the rich and famous, pushing the American League to play in an annual All-Star game, and showing midgets the door - a door they've never tried to reopen ("If only Jackie Robinson had been a midget...." Harridge told his barber). Will Harridge, a stately and full-on gentleman, sat around for literally decades at a time making the hard decisions which grey the hair and crinkle the neck of most chief executives.