akira_hokuto has Commish honors by virtue of winning the 1972 World Series. Unfortunately he appears to be AWOL.
We are up and moving now, though:
We had 2 guys not returning. shawbigred stepped up and started communicating with guys from the wait list. One of the open spots will be taken by msleath. It is taking a while to get the 24th owner because a couple of guys who were holdovers from last season's waiting list have declined. One more holdover (ccyaz) has been sitemailed. If he declines, or doesn't respond, then we'll get to the guys who got on the wait list in this thread. Presumably, they would accept the spot.
As soon as we get the 24th, I will (1) assign teams using the owner rankings I collected immediately after the 1973 World Series ended, (2) make my team, (3) create the league, and (4) sitemail everybody.
Hopefully, we can start fairly soon after that, but it always takes a while for all the teams to get in. Any owners remaining on AWOL would have to be replaced at that point.