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- Kenesaw Mountain Landis
- Letter as Commissioner
"TELL MR. CURLEY I WISH HIM NO HARM."
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 LANDIS,
Kenesaw Mountain (1866-1944). Major
League's First Baseball Commissioner after the 1919 Black Sox
World Series scandal. Member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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- Typed Letter Signed, "K.M. Landis" on the imprinted
letterhead "Baseball." Kenesaw M. Landis, Commissioner.
Chicago, September 21, 1923 to Mr. A.L. Sloan, Editorial Department,
Evening American. "Acknowledging receipt of the invitation
to attend a reception to Mr. Curley on Saturday evening, September
22, I am very sorry to have to inform you that I will be on a
railroad train headed away from Chicago while this function is
in progress. I am very sorry this is so. Tell Mr. Curley I wish
him no harm." Light browning otherwise in very good
condition. $695.00
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