Art Beckett was out. He'd been named among the eight men to whom the franchise had been awarded, but he'd never made any public appearances or statements in regard to the team. There was no hint of why he was selling out. Was it money? Disinterest? Incompatibility? Who knows? His association with the team was never mentioned again in the press, even at the time of his death. Taking over his share of the team was Roger Lapham, Jr., an insurance executive whose father had been San Francisco's mayor in the 1940s.