On This Day, Jan. 12: Major League Baseball gets its first commissioner
On Jan. 12, 1921, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis was elected the first commissioner of Major League Baseball.
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On Jan. 12, 1921, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis was elected the first commissioner of Major League Baseball.
On This Day: Kenesaw Mountain Landis becomes 1st MLB commissioner On Jan. 12, 1921, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis was elected the first commissioner of Major League Baseball. By (0) Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, commissioner of baseball, assumes his characteristic pose for the cameramen as he takes in the 1937 All-Star game in Washington, D.C., on July 7, 1937. On January 12, 1921, Landis was elected the first commissioner of Major League Baseball. File Photo by Library of Congress/UPI An injured man is carried by survivors of a magnitude-7 earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on January 1...