Baseball’s First Commissioner: The Hiring of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis
Editor’s note: This article was originally published in 2021 as part of the SABR Century 1921 Project. Federal judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis was hired as baseball’s first commissioner in November 1920. He served in that role for nearly a quarter-century until his death in 1944. (LIBRARY OF CONGRESS) Only in the face of extreme […]