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- Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1944, two weeks after he passed away. The Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award for both the National and American Leagues was renamed the Kenesaw Mountains Landis Memorial Baseball Award.
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Oct 3, 2020 · Oct 2, 2020 at 8:45 pm ET • 1 min read. Getty Images. On Friday, the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA) announced that the group has voted to remove the name of Kenesaw Mountain...
- Dayn Perry
Oct 2, 2020 · The league MVP plaques will be nameless in 2020, and the BBWAA will discuss renaming them in 2021. "This past summer, two Most Valuable Player award winners, Barry Larkin and Terry Pendleton, spoke of their discomfort with the name of Kenesaw Mountain Landis attached to their awards," BBWAA president Paul Sullivan said in a statement.
Jun 30, 2020 · NEW YORK — Something still bothers Barry Larkin about his Most Valuable Player award. The other name engraved on the trophy: Kenesaw Mountain Landis. “Why is it on there?” said Larkin,...
- Joe Nguyen
Oct 3, 2020 · Corbis via Getty Images. Seventy-six years after he died, Kenesaw Mountain Landis has struck out. The first Commissioner of Baseball had his name removed from the game’s highest award: the...
- Dan Schlossberg
Jun 30, 2020 · The award includes the name and image of Kenesaw Mountain Landis. Fact is, few fans realize Landis’ name is plastered all over the Most Valuable Player trophies. Most people just call it the MVP.
Jun 30, 2020 · NEW YORK -- Something still bothers Barry Larkin about his Most Valuable Player award. The other name engraved on the trophy: Kenesaw Mountain Landis. “Why is it on there?” said Larkin, the Black shortstop voted National League MVP in 1995 with the Cincinnati Reds.
The Baseball Writers' Association of America after Landis's death in 1944 renamed its Most Valuable Player Awards after Landis, but removed his name in 2020 with a vote of 89 percent of voting members in favor. The president of the association said Landis had "notably failed to integrate the game during his tenure".
