ONEMOREINNING
Commissioner
kenesaw mountain
landis:
A
list of all the players he banned from the game.
As the editor and publisher
of ONE MORE INNING I have printed several articles of Commissioner Landis
and most of them have not been favorable. I wont go over my negative feelings
about him but will just briefly say that when it was politically expedient
for him to ban players he did so and when it wasn’t, he not only looked
the other way but suddenly important and incriminating documents would disappear.
He was also responsible for
keeping not only blacks out of the game, but women as
well.
For the most part we pretty
much know about his role in the BLACK SOX SCANDAL. There were other bans
that he was involved in and here they are:
HAL
CHASE: 1921: FIXING GAMES.
JOE
GEDEON: 1920: CONSPIRING WITH GAMBLERS IN THE BLACK SOX
SCANDAL.
BENNY
KAUFF: 1919: STOLE A CAR.
LEE
MAGEE: 1920: THREW GAMES AND BET ON THEM.
HEINIE
GROH: 1921: HAD THE TEMERITY TO HOLD OUT FOR MORE MONEY. LANDIS BANNED HIM
FOR LIFE.
RAY
FISHER: 1921: REFUSED TO PLAY FOR THE REDS WHEN THEY CUT HIS SALARY. DITTO
DICKIE KERR: THEY WERE BOTH BANNED FOR LIFE.
PHIL
DOUGLAS: 1922: TRIED TO BRIBE MEMBERS OF HIS TEAM. DITTO JIMMY O’CONNELL
WHO LANDIS MADE THE SCAPEGOAT HERE WHEN THE REAL CULPRITS WERE MANGER JOHN
MCGRAW AND ROSS BARNES WHO GOT AWAY SCOTT FREE.
PHILLIES
OWNER WILLIAM COX: 1943: BET ON HIS TEAMS GAMES.
AND LAST BUT NOT
LEAST:
THE
BLACK SOX SCANDAL: 1919: JOE JACKSON BUCK WEAVER, ED CICOTTE, CHICK GANDIL,
FRED WILLIAMSON, LEFTY WILLIAMS, SWEDE RISBERG, HAPPY FELSH: BANNED FOR
LIFE.
IT’S A PRETTY LONG LIST.
IT HOWEVER SHOULD HAVE INCLUDED TY COBB, TRIS SPEAKER, JOHN
McGRAW, ROSS BARNES AND MANY OTHER STARS. IF NOTHING
ELSE LANDIS KNEW HOW TO PLAY THE POLITICAL GAME AND PLAY IT HE
DID!
