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Commissioner of BaseballBy Wikipedia
In 1920, the owners of Major League Baseball, in order to reestablish
confidence of fans in the sport following the Black
Sox Scandal, established the office of Commissioner of Baseball. Under
the direction of the commissioner, the office hires and maintains the
sport's umpiring crews, and negotiates marketing, labor, and television
contracts. The commissioner is chosen by a vote of the owners of the
teams; it is said that George Bush Jr., as he then wished to be known,
once angled for the position.
The unique title "Commissioner", which is a title now applied
to the heads of several other major sports leagues as well as baseball,
derives from its predecessor office, the National Commission. The National
Commission was the ruling body of baseball starting with the National
Agreement of 1903 which made peace between the leagues. It consisted of
three members: the league presidents, and a Commission Chairman, whose
primary responsibility was to preside at meetings and presumably to
mediate disputes. The Black Sox scandal was seen as a failure of the
National Commission. The Commission was in some sense baseball's
equivalent to the Articles of Confederation: a good start, but ultimately
scrapped and replaced with a more powerful and centralized government.
Commissioners of Baseball
- Kenesaw
Mountain Landis (1920-1944)
- A. B. "Happy" Chandler I (1945-1951)
- Ford
Frick (1951-1965)
- Lt. Gen. William Eckert (1965-1968)
- Bowie Kuhn (1969-1984)
- Peter Ueberroth (1984-1989)
- Bart Giamatti (1989)
- Fay Vincent (1989-1992)
- Bud
Selig (1992-present; held title of "acting commissioner"
from 1992-1998)
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