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5 quotes found searching on Position: 1st Commissioner of Baseball, 1920-1944
The only thing in anybody's mind now is to make baseball what the millions of fans throughout the United States want it to be
Kenesaw Mountain Landis
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1st Commissioner of Baseball, 1920-1944
HOF 1944
Casey Stengel just can't keep from being Casey Stengel.
Kenesaw Mountain Landis
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1st Commissioner of Baseball, 1920-1944
HOF 1944
Mr. Foster, when you beat our teams, it gives us a black eye.
1923
Kenesaw Mountain Landis
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1st Commissioner of Baseball, 1920-1944
HOF 1944
Regardless of the verdict of juries, no player who throws a ballgame, no player who undertakes or promises to throw a game, no player who sits in conference with a bunch of crooked players and gamblers where the ways and means of throwing a ballgame is discussed, and does not promptly tell his club about it, will ever play professional baseball again.
Kenesaw Mountain Landis
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1st Commissioner of Baseball, 1920-1944
HOF 1944
Contributed by: Lee Gibbs
Negroes are not barred from organized baseball by the commissioner and never have been during the twenty-one years I have served. If Durocher, or any other manager, or all of them, want to sign one, or twenty-five, Negro players, it is all right with me. It is the business of the managers and the club owners.
Kenesaw Mountain Landis
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1st Commissioner of Baseball, 1920-1944
HOF 1944
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