Eckersley continued in his role as closer and remained one of the league's best, but following the 1997 season, he signed on with the Red Sox for one final season, 1998.

The 1970s were not much better, with the Indians trading away several future stars, including Graig Nettles, Dennis Eckersley, Buddy Bell and 1971 Rookie of the Year Chris Chambliss, for a number of players who made no impact.

Sutcliffe ( 5 – 5 with the Indians ) immediately joined Sanderson ( 8 – 5 3. 14 ), Eckersley ( 10 – 8 3. 03 ), Steve Trout ( 13 – 7 3. 41 ) and Dick Ruthven ( 6 – 10 5. 04 ) in the starting rotation.

In Berlin, Joyce could not find employment until a chance meeting with fellow Mosleyite Dorothy Eckersley got him an audition at the Rundfunkhaus (" broadcasting house ").

On September 16, 1993, at age 41, he collected his 3, 000th career hit with a single off Oakland Athletics closer Dennis Eckersley.

* Dennis Eckersley, baseball Hall of Famer, lived on Morse Road prior to his years with the Boston Red Sox and on Plympton Road during and after his years with the Red Sox

In fact this may have been inspired by his catching the Chief Engineer, Captain Eckersley, not just kissing but being en flagrante with an actress on a studio table.

He was to be somewhat embarrassed when one of his staff ran off with the quite new wife of the then rising young writer Evelyn Waugh and he also had to deal with Eckersley after he had a rather public affair with a married woman also on the staff.

) As a result, later teams have been more willing to move successful starters — notably Dennis Eckersley, Dave Righetti, and John Smoltz — to the permanent role of closer, with no plans to bring them back to the rotation ( although Smoltz bucked that trend by successfully returning to the rotation in 2005 ).

On September 16, 2004, Schilling won his 20th game of the for the Red Sox, becoming the fifth Boston pitcher to win 20 or more games in his first season with the team, and the first since Hall of Famer Dennis Eckersley in 1978.

Eckersley pitched reliably over three seasons with the Indians.

Eckersley was traded with Fred Kendall on March 30, 1978 to the Boston Red Sox for Rick Wise, Mike Paxton, Bo Diaz, and Ted Cox.

Over the next two seasons, Eckersley won a career-high 20 games in 1978 and 17 games in 1979, with a 2. 99 ERA in each year.

However, during the remainder of his tenure with Boston, from 1980 to 1984, Eckersley pitched poorly.

Eckersley was traded on May 25, 1984 with Mike Brumley to the Chicago Cubs for Bill Buckner, one of several mid-season deals that helped the Cubs to their first postseason appearance since 1945.

Eckersley performed poorly in his sole start for the Cubs in their NL Championship Series with the San Diego Padres.

Indeed, Eckersley started two games with the A's before an injury to then-closer Jay Howell opened the door for Eckersley to move into the closer's role.

Since Eckersley, one other reliever, Éric Gagné, has won Cy Young honors ( Gagné won the National League award in with the Los Angeles Dodgers ).

When Tony LaRussa left the A's after the 1995 season, he became the St. Louis Cardinals ' new manager and arranged to bring Eckersley along with him.

The Red Sox acquired Buckner from the Cubs for Dennis Eckersley and Mike Brumley on May 25,.

These players include Andy Pafko ( who, coincidentally, played in the 1945 World Series as a Cub ), Gene Baker, Smoky Burgess, Don Hoak, Dale Long, Lou Brock ( whose first title was in after a mid-season trade to the St. Louis Cardinals ), Lou Johnson, Jim Brewer, Moe Drabowsky, Don Cardwell, Ken Holtzman, Billy North, Fred Norman, Bill Madlock, Manny Trillo, Greg Gross, Rick Monday, Burt Hooton, Bruce Sutter, Willie Hernández, Joe Niekro, Dennis Eckersley, Joe Carter, Greg Maddux, Joe Girardi ( as both a player and a manager ), José Vizcaíno, Glenallen Hill ( after his second stint with the Cubs ; his title came in after a mid-season trade ), Luis Gonzalez, Mike Morgan, Mark Grace, Mark Bellhorn, Bill Mueller, Scott Eyre ( whose title came in after he been traded from the Cubs during the season ), Tom Gordon, Matt Stairs, Jamie Moyer, in, Mark DeRosa and Mike Fontenot — the former of whom had been traded the offseason before, the latter having been traded that midseason, and in, Ryan Theriot who was traded the previous season.

After spending the previous twelve years as a starter, mostly for the Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs, Dennis Eckersley would be converted into a closer in and would lead the American League in saves in with 45.

* 1985 – Adam Eckersley, English footballer

Adam James Eckersley ( born 7 September 1985 ) is an English footballer who plays primarily as a left back, but is also capable of playing at right back.

The flight was nearly cancelled when Eckersley withdrew his claim that the beams would bend round the earth enough to be received.

The most memorable moment of the 1988 World Series occurred when injured Dodgers MVP Kirk Gibson, who could barely walk due to injuries suffered during the National League Championship Series, hit a pinch-hit, walk-off home run against Athletics closer Dennis Eckersley in Game 1.

With that thought in mind, Gibson stepped back into the batter's box ; and thus when Eckersley did in fact throw a backdoor slider, it was, thanks to Didier, exactly the pitch Gibson was looking for.

Peter Eckersley was the first Chief Engineer of the British Broadcasting Company, Limited from 1922 to 1927 and Chief Engineer of the British Broadcasting Corporation until 1929 when he was sacked by John Reith after divorcing his wife ( Reith was a deeply religious man and would not tolerate the ' scandal ' of having a divorced man working for him ).

Reith was a former military man and a Scottish Calvinist who on the surface seemed to be all of the things that Eckersley was not and in 1929 when Eckersley divorced his wife and began an affair with a married woman on the staff, Reith forced him out of his job.

He joined Barnsley on 8 January 2007 on loan until the end of the season, but the loan was effectively cut short in April 2007 when Eckersley returned to Manchester United after suffering a torn thigh muscle and did not play for Barnsley again.

Eckersley scored his first goal in English football and his first anywhere since a loan spell at Royal Antwerp in a 2 – 2 home draw with Yeovil Town on 29 January 2008, but he soon left the club when his contract expired at the end of the 2007 – 08 campaign, following Port Vale's relegation to League Two.

* The Power Behind the Microphone, by Eckersley, Peter P. – Jonathan Cape, London.

Kirk Gibson would later say that prior to the Series, Dodgers scout Mel Didier had provided a report on Eckersley that claimed with a 3 – 2 count against a left-handed power hitter, one could be absolutely certain that Eckersley would throw a backdoor slider.

Captain Peter Pendleton Eckersley ( PP Eckersley ) ( 1892 – 1963 ) was a pioneer of British broadcasting.

* Peter Eckersley ( 1892 – 1963 ), broadcasting engineer, and Chief Engineer, BBC, 1923 – 1929

* Thomas Eckersley ( 1886 – 1959 ), theoretical physicist and electrical engineer

* Nathaniel Eckersley ( 1815 – 1892 )-Mill owner and MP.

A's closer Dennis Eckersley then shut down the Jays in the bottom half of the inning to preserve a 4 – 3 victory and give the Athletics a 1 – 0 lead in the series.

* Reliever of the Decade: Dennis Eckersley, Athletics – Cardinals – Red Sox

Converted from a starting pitcher to relief in 1988 by Oakland, he became a set-up man to Dennis Eckersley, posting a series of sub-3. 7 ERAs from 1988 through 1993.

While Griffey ( 56 ) and Vaughn ( 50 ) would fall short of the record, both Sosa ( 66 ) and McGwire ( 70 ) shattered Maris's record in an exciting late-season chase that culminated in a final week that saw record-setting performances by McGwire, Sosa, Tom Gordon, Dennis Eckersley, Trevor Hoffman and Jason Kendall.