Kenesaw Mountain Landis
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kenesaw-mountain-landis-205-4692841
title:
Kenesaw Mountain Landis
text:
Kenesaw Mountain Landis was an American jurist who served as a United States federal judge from 1905 to 1922 and the first Commissioner of Baseball from 1920 until his death. He is remembered for his resolution of the Black Sox Scandal, in which he expelled eight members of the Chicago White Sox from organized baseball for conspiring to lose the 1919 World Series and repeatedly refused their reinstatement requests. His iron rule over baseball in the near quarter-century of his commissionership i
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American judge and first Commissioner of Baseball (1866–1944)
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenesaw_Mountain_Landis
date created:
2001-09-05T19:46:01Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T07:25:05Z
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