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How baseball's first commissioner led a conspiracy of silence to preserve baseball's color line

  • Written by Chris Lamb, Professor of Journalism, IUPUI
How baseball's first commissioner led a conspiracy of silence to preserve baseball's color lineWhen commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis received a petition to integrate baseball with over a million signatures, he simply ignored it.APA via Getty Images

The Baseball Writers’ Association of America recently announced that it would remove former Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis’ name from the plaques...

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