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TNET: No. 8 Tigers host Owls for weekend series
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TNET: No. 8 Tigers host Owls for weekend series

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Feb 22, 2024, 5:03 PM
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No. 8 Tigers host Owls for weekend series

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Hoo?

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Feb 22, 2024, 9:47 PM
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This series should be a HOOT.

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WHOOOOO-OOOO?

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Feb 23, 2024, 8:43 AM
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Sorry, couldn't resist.

Although spelled differently, and no affiliation with Kennesaw State, I could not help but think of Kenesaw Mountain Landis, the first Commissioner of Baseball, when I saw the name. Not only was he the first Commissioner of Major League Baseball, put in place to restore confidence in the integrity of baseball following the 1919 "Black Sox" World Series cheating scandal, before that, he was a federal judge for several years. He was well known for taking on corporations, so organized baseball was right up his alley.

He is most well known for banning 8 members of the 1919 Chicago White Sox for life, including Shoeless Joe Jackson, over their efforts to throw the 1919 World Series for organized gambling. Over the years, to rid baseball of gambling and crookedness that had crept into the game, he eventually banned 18 players in all, AND Phillies President William D. Cox, for varying involvements with gambling.

Landis also melded the major leagues with the minor league farm systems, where prior to his arrival, minor league players were kept from moving up to the major league ranks for the most part. He forced all teams to reveal transactions and player moves, so that potential talent could not be kept "hidden" and denied a path to the majors.

The one area he fell short was in integrating the game. While he did say, via the Commissioners office, that there were no rules prohibiting the participation of black players in major league baseball, he did nothing to promote such a move, leaving it totally in the hands of the owners. By doing nothing, he gave tacit approval to maintaining separate leagues for negro players.

Though critics called him ruthless, there is no question that Landis' post-Black Sox scandal work restored dignity and respect to baseball. He was elected to the Hall of Fame in a special vote soon after his death on Nov. 25, 1944.

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