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 ...

On long train rides to Chicago and St. Louis, he passed up the card ... his ghost—and his grave.” Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis—the stern, whitemaned commissioner who would soon order ...