Happy Chandler becomes the second baseball commissioner

On April 24, 1945 – A.B. “Happy” Chandler becomes baseball’s second commissioner. The major league owners unanimously elect the former governor of Kentucky on the first ballot and reward him with a seven-year contract. Chandler succeeds Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, the game’s first commissioner, who died in 1944. Baseball’s second commissioner will remain in the Senate during the first six months of his tenure in office.

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