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

Occupation

baseball player / lawyer / judge

University

Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenesaw%20Mountain%20Landis
• 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
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3106481

Tags

• Ohio
• baseball player
• lawyer
• judge

Last updated

2026-06-21

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