Wikipedia - "Kenesaw Mountain Landis (... November 20, 1866 – November 25, 1944) was an American jurist who served as a federal judge from 1905 to 1922 and as the first Commissioner of Baseball from 1920 until his death. He is remembered for his handling of the Black Sox scandal, in which he expelled eight members of the Chicago White Sox from organized baseball for conspiring to lose the 1919 World Series and repeatedly refused their reinstatement requests. His firm actions and iron rule over baseball in the near quarter-century of his commissionership are generally credited with restoring public confidence in the game."
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MLB: Kenesaw Mountain Landis
ESPN: The Chicago Black Sox banned from baseball
ESPN: The Black Sox scandal is forever
W - List of people banned from Major League Baseball
YouTube: Mountain Landis named commissioner to clean up baseball
2010 December: 1919 World Series - Black Sox Scandal
2011 May: The Black Sox Trial - 1921
2011 September: Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series
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