Kenesaw Mountain Landis

Kenesaw Mountain Landis , born the November 20th 1866 and deceased the November 25th 1944, was an American lawyer who was federal judge of 1905 with 1922 then police chief of the major leagues of Baseball of 1920 with 1944.

Legal career

Named federal judge in 1905 in the Illinois by the president Theodore Roosevelt, Kenesaw Mountain Landis treats several important businesses. He thus condemns in 1907 the Standard Oil in the name of the antitrust law of a fine record of 29 million dollars. In 1919, it chairs the lawsuit of a hundred marked trade unionists to have circumvented the mobilization in 1917. It was also at the origin of the exclusion of the boxing rings of the black world champion of boxing Jack Johnson under the charge to have crossed a border of State with a white woman…

Named in 1920 at the post of police chief of baseball, it gives up its load of federal judge in 1922 following a campaign of several American elected officials for conflict of interests between these two stations.

Police chief of baseball

Following the scandal of Black Sox which shook baseball in 1919, Kenesaw Mountain Landis was contacted by the owners of the franknesses from major leagues so taking the title of " police chief of the baseball" in order to recrédibiliser play. Landis required the full powerss, and the owners accepted. Of 1920 to its death in 1944, he will be an inflexible police chief. Its first decision is radiation with life of the eight players implied in the scandal of Black Sox even if the players had been discharged by justice; the tone was given.

Landis remained also inflexible on the segregation and prevented any evolution on this level. The black players remained with the variation of the major leagues until in 1947, that is to say three years after its death.

It was introduced with the Temple of re-elected baseball as of 1944.

Police chief of baseball

Biography of Kenesaw Mountain Landis - '' baseballhalloffame.org ''

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