American and National League team owners appoint Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis, of the northern district of illinois, to be the first Commissioner of Major League Baseball.
[restored 6/20/2022]
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References:
Calvin D. Linton, ed., The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 301.