Kenesaw Mountain Landis, American lawyer and judge (died 1944)

Kenesaw Mountain Landis

American judge and first commissioner of baseball (1866–1944)

Kenesaw Mountain Landis was an American jurist who served as a United States federal judge from 1905 to 1922 and the first commissioner of baseball from 1920 until his death. He is remembered for his resolution of the Black Sox Scandal, in which he expelled eight members of the…