In Chicago, Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis chewed up many cigars over testimony concerning two dismissed club-managers, Tyrus Cobb (Detroit) and Tristram Speaker (Cleveland), accused of ...

1921 — Kenesaw Mountain Landis takes office as baseball’s commissioner ... to give the East a 98-93 victory and Cousy the MVP honors. 1958 — Bob Pettit of St. Louis becomes the first member of the ...

In Manhattan the club owners of the American and National Leagues held their annual meeting with Commissioner Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis in the chair. In many hours of the sort of conferential ...

1921 — Kenesaw Mountain Landis takes office as baseball’s commissioner.