Baseball’s Most Colorful Commissioner: Happy Chandler
This article was originally published in “A Celebration of Louisville Baseball,” the 1997 SABR convention journal. Albert Benjamin “Happy” Chandler (1898-1991), born in Corydon, Kentucky, was a lifetime baseball fan who often attended Cincinnati Reds games during his first tenure as Governor of Kentucky. In 1945, he was the surprise choice of the owners […]