Kenesaw Mountain Landis

Landis fascinates me as a study in raw authority. A federal judge handed the broken, scandal-stained world of baseball, he ruled it like a frontier sheriff, banning the Black Sox for life on conviction of conscience rather than courtroom verdict. I find that both thrilling and uncomfortable. His legacy is rightly contested, particularly on the question of segregation, and I won't romanticize the man wholesale. Yet I can't deny the truth he embodied, that institutions in crisis sometimes need a single unyielding figure to restore belief. He was that figure, severe and immovable, and the game survived because of it.

Name (English)

Kenesaw Mountain Landis

Name (Japanese)

ケネソー・マウンテン・ランディス

Reading

けねそー・まうんてん・らんでぃす

Born

November 20, 1866 – November 25, 1944

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Tiger

Origin

Millville, Ohio, United States

Blood type

Private

Height

Private

Agency

Private

Occupation

baseball player / lawyer / judge

Elementary school

Private

Junior high

Private

High school

Private

University

Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law

Spouse

Private

Children

Private

Parents

Private

Siblings

Private

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B1%E3%83%8D%E3%82%BD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%82%A6%E3%83%B3%E3%83%86%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%82%B9

Tags

• Ohio
• baseball player
• lawyer
• judge

Last updated

2026-06-21

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.