Kenesaw Mountain Landis

Kenesaw Mountain Landis (; November 20, 1866 – November 25, 1944) was an American lawyer and politician. He was a United States federal judge from 1905 to 1922. He was also the first commissioner of baseball from 1920 until his death. He is best known for his resolution of the Black Sox Scandal, in which he banned eight members of the Chicago White Sox from organized baseball for losing the 1919 World Series on purpose. 

Landis died on November 25, 1944 from problems caused by a heart attack at a hospital in Chicago, Illinois, five days after his 78th birthday. Two weeks after his death, Landis was voted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

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