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...scandal. In the fall of 1919, eight members the Chicago White Sox, considered by many to be one of the best teams ever, conspired with gamblers to throw the World Series to the Cinncinati Reds. Although the eight players were acquitted in a court of law, baseball commissioner Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis banned them from ever playing major league baseball again...
When the Chicago White Sox threw the World Series in 1919, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis barred the guilty players for life. This courageous decision helped usher in a new era of popularity and prosperity for baseball, as public confidence in the game was restored. The same courage is needed now to fight the players' unions, which are blocking random drug testing...
...only baseball commissioner with an impossible act to follow was Albert B. ("Happy") Chandler, who succeeded Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis...
...standards" alone, not discrimination, were keeping the excluded Blacks out the door. "There is not a single Negro player with major league possibilities," the Sporting News editorialized at the end of the conspiracy in 1945, widely reflecting the views of the oligarchy of owners that controlled the game. Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, the imperious commissioner of baseball, took the role of frontman for the charade and declared, "Negroes are not banned from organized baseball...and have never been in the 21 years I have served." All this was barely 30 years ago, scarcely believable in an age when Blacks...
...years of MacPhail's watch, which concludes this year, he has put no one in mind of either Solomon or Kenesaw Mountain Landis. But the ringing phrases in MacPhail's two-page reversal included: "The spirit of the rules" and "It is the strong conviction of the league that games should be won and lost on the playing field." The umpires' call was "technically defensible"; MacPhail did not blame them. With a flourish, he even commended "Manager Martin and his staff for their alertness." But all future complaints about pine tar will have to be lodged before...