 After that franchise folded after one season, at the age of 20, Ramsdell returned to the CBA front office as Deputy Commissioner.With the resignation of Commissioner Mike Storen in 1988, Jay Ramsdell became the youngest Commissioner in the history of professional sports when he assumed the position at the age of 24.Ramsdell and Deputy Commissioner Jerry Schemmel were on United Airlines Flight 232 on July 19, 1989, and traveling from the league headquarters in Denver to the player draft in Columbus, Ohio, when the plane crash-landed in Sioux City, Iowa, after losing all hydraulics.