On January 21 1921 — Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis officially is signed as baseball commissioner, to a seven-year, $350,000 contract.
“The legend has been spread that the owners hired the Judge off the federal bench. Don’t you believe it. They got him right out of Dickens.” – LEO DUROCHER, speaking about encounters with the commissioner during his playing days.In a move widely supported by the press, Kenesaw Mountain Landis becomes baseball’s first commissioner, replacing the three-man National Commission, formerly governed by league presidents Ban Johnson and John Heydler and Reds owner Garry Herrmann.
In November, the 55 year-old jurist agreed to take the newly created position for seven years at a salary of $50,000 (minus a $7,500 reduction to reflect his current pay as judge) on the condition he could continue to preside on the federal bench, an arrangement which would come to an end in thirteen months, when he resigns from his judicial responsibilities.
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