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BBWAA removes ex-MLB commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis' name from MVP awards
AP via ESPN ^ | 10/2/20

Posted on 10/02/2020 2:22:07 PM PDT by fhayek

The Baseball Writers' Association of America overwhelmingly voted in favor of removing the name of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis from the MVP awards for both the American League and National League, it was announced Friday.

Of the 313 votes, 89% were in favor of removing Landis' name from the awards. The MVP plaques will be nameless in 2020.

Earlier this year, former NL MVPs Barry Larkin, Mike Schmidt and Terry Pendleton told The Associated Press they would favor removing Landis' name because of concerns over his handling of Black players.


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To: fhayek

Stop capitalizing that GD word.

As for this, it ticks me off how they so glibly cast off people who were legends. “Cast the first stone”.

OTOH, why do so many of these things need to be named for anyone? Why “KML Most Valuable Player Award”? Isn’t the name stating exactly what it is enough?

To wit, why “Thurgood Marshall Baltimore-Wash Airport” and “Ronald Reagan National Airport”? The straight-forward location names were enough 20 years ago! Why give anyone fodder to hate it?


21 posted on 10/02/2020 3:15:07 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs. I)
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To: originalbuckeye

These are the same people constantly lecturing us about Jesus (while mocking Christianity generally) regarding leches: “W/o sin cast the first stone”.

And they never mention the “sin no more” part.


22 posted on 10/02/2020 3:16:28 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs. I)
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To: kaehurowing
Everyone involved in desegregating Major League Baseball should be stripped of any and all honors they have received. Those racists destroyed the Negro Leagues!!

:-P

23 posted on 10/02/2020 3:28:15 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("ThereÂ’s somebody new and he sure ain't no rodeo man.")
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To: fhayek
He was a Southerner,

He was born in Ohio. He was named that after the battle his father fought in as a Union soldier.

24 posted on 10/02/2020 3:32:46 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople (What if the Lord sent COVID-19 to immunize the world from something more deadly?)
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To: fhayek

I actually have an old baseball card of him and will now post it prominently in my office.


25 posted on 10/02/2020 3:36:18 PM PDT by Dacula ( If you won the lottery, would you mail in your ticket or go in person? Remember that when you vote.)
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To: MuttTheHoople

OMG. All my life, I knew that Landis was named after a mountain in Georgia. I thought he was born in the south. Today I learned something. Thank you.


26 posted on 10/02/2020 3:37:46 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: Dacula

I can not do that. I forgot that I donated that card and many others to the Ty Cobb Museum in Royston, GA.


27 posted on 10/02/2020 3:39:17 PM PDT by Dacula ( If you won the lottery, would you mail in your ticket or go in person? Remember that when you vote.)
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To: fhayek

Poetic justice. Punishing him because his daddy fought to free the slaves. Klan must really be the ones behind this.


28 posted on 10/02/2020 3:52:57 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: D Rider

The James Caan version please.


29 posted on 10/02/2020 3:59:04 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Tijeras_Slim

The only version as far as I’m concerned.


30 posted on 10/02/2020 4:07:56 PM PDT by wally_bert (Transmission tone, Selma)
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To: fhayek

I’ll get REALLY ticked off when they rename it the “Most Valuable Player Award brought to you by Draft Kings”.


31 posted on 10/02/2020 4:12:30 PM PDT by Ratman0823 (Q. What did California have before democrats? A. Electricity)
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To: Ratman0823

Now, THAT would be irony...


32 posted on 10/02/2020 4:22:40 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: Tijeras_Slim
Is there another? /Rhetorical
33 posted on 10/02/2020 4:24:25 PM PDT by D Rider
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To: fhayek

Unlike most of their targets, Landis was an actual racist.


34 posted on 10/02/2020 5:32:40 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek
placing all of the blame for baseball's color line on one man when the owners had the power to hire whoever they pleased is incorrect

True, but he gets a lot of it. The color line would have ended sooner but for Judge Landis.

In 1944, a few years before Bill Veeck finally got the St. Louis Browns, he was the owner of the then-minor league (AAA) Milwaukee Brewers. Veeck hatched a plan to buy the last-place Philadelphia Phillies and sign several Negro League stars, including Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, and Buck Leonard.

Veeck had a tentative deal, but while he was on his way to Philadelphia, Commissioner Landis got wind of the plan and put the kibosh on the sale. It would be another three years before Jackie Robinson broke the color line.

35 posted on 10/02/2020 5:38:48 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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