Word: kenesaw
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...simply "to answer the burning question of how a dignified man would hold on to six squab while watching a ball game." The son of a sportswriter who became president of the Chicago Cubs, Veeck planted the first ivy at Wrigley Field and once sent a letter to Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis warning him that the reserve clause was doomed. He invented season tickets and bat days, and started the practice of printing players' names on the back of their uniforms. In 1947 he hired Larry Doby, the first black to play in the American League, and mercilessly taunted...
There is only one capital crime in baseball, and the reason for that is historic. In 1919 gamblers rigged the World Series, and the guilty players were tossed out of baseball for life by the first commissioner, Kenesaw Mountain Landis. That middle name tells you all there is to know about how tough he was, and ever since it has been clear that anyone who bet on a game in which he was a participant would be banished from baseball for life. No one has ever been reinstated, not even the hapless "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, who for years begged Landis...