Word: kenesaw
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...always bet on them to win. The implications remain troubling: what would a bookie taking Rose's action infer if the manager of the Reds, who bet on them regularly, didn't bet on them that particular day? "There had not been such grave allegations since the time of [Kenesaw Mountain] Landis," said then commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti in 1989, referring to the commissioner who cleaned up the 1919 Black Sox scandal. Confronted with this evidence, Rose agreed to a lifetime ban from the sport but didn't specifically admit to betting on baseball. Implicit in the agreement, according...
First, the owners effectively eliminated the game's commissioner, unilaterally wiping out a position that symbolized honesty and integrity ever since Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis brought the 1919 Chicago "Black Sox" to justice. The game's natural tendency towards greed and money-grubbing (it is a business, of course) has been unchecked by any impartial voice for too long...
While a jury failed to convict the eight White Sox players, baseball's first commissioner, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, banished the eight players from baseball for life...
...happened so quickly. On Tuesday, Aug. 16, owners and players agreed to bring in a mediator: Big Rock Candy Mountain Landis, grandson of commissioner Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, who had ruled the sport with an iron fist in the '20s and '30s. Young Landis convened the warring parties in the Who-Needs- a-Commissioner's Office in Manhattan and presented each with a baseball cap full of paper slips. For the players, Donald Fehr drew a slip reading "No Salary Arbitration." For the owners, Richard Ravitch pulled out a note saying "This is the only cap you get," thus dispensing...
...baseball owners named Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis as commissioner 73 years ago because they wanted an independent authority to restore integrity to The Game in the wake of 1919 World Series, which was intentionally thrown by members of the Chicago White...