Commissioner Landis

[eastchicagosoxfan]

I've been debating the effectiveness of Landis as Commissioner. What are some opinions out there? I think people often assign 2005 values and cultural standards to a figure who lived 70 years ago. He was racist, and ruled with an iron hand, but was he as good a Commissioner as MLB could have expected at the time?

Source: Right: Baseball: 100 ears of The Modern Era: 1901-2000: From The Archives Of The Sporting News, edited by Joe Hoppel, 2001, pp. 46.



The Commissioner of Baseball, at his Chicago office.