BBWAA removes ex-MLB commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis' name from MVP awards

AP via ESPN ^ | 10/2/20

[the OlLine Rebel]

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?

[the OlLine Rebel]

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.

[Alberta's Child]

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

[MuttTheHoople]

He was a Southerner,

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

[Dacula]

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

[fhayek]

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.

[Dacula]

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

[PAR35]

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

[Tijeras_Slim]

The James Caan version please.

[wally_bert]

The only version as far as I’m concerned.

[Ratman0823]

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

[fhayek]

Now, THAT would be irony...

[D Rider]

Is there another? /Rhetorical

[TBP]

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

[TBP]

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.