1945 — Albert B. “Happy” Chandler, junior Senator from Kentucky, is elected baseball commissioner by a unanimous vote of the major league club owners. Chandler is elected to a seven-year term and ...

The Canucks oust St. Louis with a 4-1 win ... Chandler is elected to a seven-year term and succeeds Kenesaw Mountain Landis, who died in November 1944. 1962 — LA Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax ...