Trivia: Who was the first baseball commissioner?
Ford Frick
Bowie Kuhn
Kenesaw Mountain Landis
A.B. “Happy” Chandler
The correct answer is Kenesaw Mountain Landis
So why is this answer correct? : A former federal judge, Kenesaw Mountain Landis was appointed MLB commissioner in 1920 in the wake of the Black Sox scandal, in which the Chicago White Sox were believed to have been bribed to throw the 1919 World Series. Landis ruled the league with an iron fist, and none of his decisions were ever overturned. In 1944, he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.