Word: kenesaw
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, baseball's first iron-fisted commissioner, could hardly have put the case more toughly. Left unmentioned in Kuhn's decision was a major worry. Some 55 players, many of them the game's most valuable, will be free agents once the season is over. The wheeling and dealing then could make the Tuesday Night Massacre look like a taffy pull...
...grand jury that they had intentionally played poorly after gamblers plied them with bribes (up to $10,000) and threatened their families. A trial jury later acquitted eight players, including Shortstop Risberg and Outfielder Joe ("Say it ain't so, Joe") Jackson, of conspiracy charges, but Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis suspended them from the game for life. Risberg retired to his Minnesota dairy farm to brood. Six years later, he decided to try to sweep the slate clean with a declaration that he and other White Sox players had paid Ty Cobb's Detroit Tigers to "slough...
Ruth set another unbroken record. During the 1922 season, he was suspended no fewer than five times-for drinking, being late to games, and disobeying the formidable commissioner of baseball, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis. (He did not, as has often been reported, hold the Yankees' minuscule manager Miller Muggins off the rear platform of a train or threaten to drop him. But he might have...
However wry Roth is, baseball is a religion in this novel. A ghostly past of Mel Ott, of Honus Wagner, the Folo Grounds, Kenesaw Mountain Landis -- it haunts this book. To Word Smith, it fled with America's innocence. In the bleachers at Fenway the other night, thinking of this, and badly shaken by the rendition of "Knock Three Times" that had just been piped to us at a deafening level, the kid in front of me with the baseball cap began loudly to taunt the center-fielder with the ageless imputation that he bit the dust. This convinced...