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...newspaper reporter: "As baseball commissioner I'm compelled to spend the winters in Florida and attend baseball games during the summer. If there is a better job than that, I don't know about it." That was not the way his stern old predecessor Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis regarded the job. But the baseball owners had carefully picked Happy because he was no Landis. Said Timesman Daley: "Maybe this makes Chandler tougher than Landis. But I doubt it. Landis was always tough in an intelligent fashion...
Many baseball bigwigs feel about their Commissioner A. B. ("Happy") Chandler the way some Democrats feel about President Truman. They wish the other guy were still here. They had reservations about Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis as czar. They hoped when they unanimously compromised last spring on Happy as the Judge's successor that they could have him as the czar who reigns but does not rule. Last week they decided to let him wear the Landis shoes...
Since the death of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis last November, baseball's big-league club owners had fumbled the question of naming a new commissioner. Some insisted that a successor should be named at once; others wanted to wait, perhaps until after the war. One sure thing was that no one wanted another Landis...
...much happened at last week's major league baseball meeting in Manhattan. The manpower squeeze, tightened further by new selective service needs in the 26-37 year-old group, precluded any important player deals. On the one big issue, appointment of a successor to the late High Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis, the club owners did nothing more alarming than to name a ways & means committee...
...Kingpin. Kenesaw Mountain Landis almost always wore a scowl, never pulled a punch. When he became the $42,500-a-year kingpin of organized baseball in 1920, the game reeked of the Black Sox scandal. He promptly decreed that the eight Chicago players involved, although acquitted by a civil court, be barred from the game for life. From that solid beginning, he ruled supreme...