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[Trivia Master]

What member of the Baseball Hall of Fame was born in 1866 and named for a Civil War battle in which his father was wounded?

credit: @hoosier

 

[Reb]

Kenesaw Mountain Landis

 

[kholland]

Kenesaw Mountain Landis

 

[Copperhead-mi]

Kenesaw Mountain Landis

"During the U.S. Civil War, Abraham H. Landis was a surgeon with the 35th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment. On General William Sherman's famous march through Georgia in 1864, Landis nearly lost a leg to a Confederate cannonball at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain. Two years later, he insisted on naming the sixth of his seven children after that battle, though he misspelled the mountain's name, dropping one 'n.'"
Kenesaw Mountain Landis

 

[Schwallanscher]

kenesaw mountain landis

 

[Wallyfish]

He was Kenesaw Mountain Landis.

What an interesting life this guy had. Great story.


http://baseballhall.org/hof/landis-kenesaw

 

[Jackson'sArm]

Kenesaw Mountain Landis

 

[captaindrew]

Kenesaw Mountain Landis. Born Nov. 20 1866, named after the battle of Kennesaw Mountain where his father Abraham Landis, Union, was wounded. He was a judge and politician and the Commissioner of Baseball who was best known for his handling of the "Black Sox Scandal"

 

[DBF]

That would be "Kenny" Landis - or Kenesaw Mountain Landis elected into the Hall of Fame, 1944 and was First Baseball Commissioner.
http://baseballhall.org/hof/landis-kenesaw

 

[FarawayFriend]

Kenesaw Mountain Landis

https://www.geni.com/people/Kenesaw-Mountain-Landis/6000000013008182064

 

[Jimklag]

What member of the Baseball Hall of Fame was born in 1866 and named for a Civil War battle in which his father was wounded?

credit: @hoosier

Kennesaw Mountain Landis

 

[WJC]

What member of the Baseball Hall of Fame was born in 1866 and named for a Civil War battle in which his father was wounded?

credit: @hoosier

Kennesaw Mountain Landis.

 

[Stony]

Kenesaw Mountain Landis

 

[William G Hendry]

KENESAW MOUNTAIN LANDIS inducted in 1944




Kenesaw Mountain Landis was born in Millville, Ohio, the sixth child and fourth son of Abraham Hoch Landis, a physician, and Mary Kumler Landis, on November 20, 1866. The Landises descended from Swiss Mennonites who had emigrated to Alsace before coming to the United States. Abraham Landis had been wounded fighting on the Union side at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain in Georgia, and when his parents proved unable to agree on a name for the new baby, Mary Landis proposed that they call him Kenesaw Mountain. At the time, both spellings of "Kenesaw" were used, but in the course of time, "Kennesaw Mountain" became the accepted spelling of the battle site.[1]

Abraham Landis worked in Millville as a country physician. When Kenesaw was eight, the elder Landis moved his family to Delphi, Indiana and subsequently to Logansport, Indiana where the doctor purchased and ran several local farms—his war injury had caused him to scale back his medical practice.[2] Two of Kenesaw's four brothers, Charles Beary Landis and Frederick Landis, became members of Congress.[3]

 

[TinCan]

Kenesaw Mountain Landis

 

[JOHN42768]

Kenesaw Mountain Landis, (born Nov. 20, 1866, Millville, Ohio, U.S.—died Nov. 25, 1944, Chicago, Ill.),

Source: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kenesaw-Mountain-Landis

 

[truthckr]

Kenesaw Mountain Landis is remembered by some as the trust-busting federal judge who in 1907 imposed a whopping fine against millionaire John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil. More often, sports fans remember Landis as the first and, arguably, most powerful commissioner of U.S. BASEBALL.

Landis earned a reputation as a stern, highly principled baseball commissioner who ran a tight ship and disapproved of gambling. He antagonized many team owners with his dictatorial style, yet was reelected several times during his twenty-four-year reign.

Although Landis is criticized for maintaining racially segregated major league teams, he is credited with restoring the integrity of the sport after the Black Sox cheating scandal—in which eight members of the Chicago White Sox were accused of throwing the 1919 World Series—nearly ruined baseball. Surprisingly popular with the public, the former judge was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1944.

Landis was born November 20, 1866, in the small Ohio town of Millville. He was named after the mountaintop near Atlanta where his father, a Union Army surgeon, was wounded in battle during the U.S. CIVIL WAR



Read more: Kenesaw Mountain Landis - Baseball, Sox, National, and Chicago - JRank Articles http://law.jrank.org/pages/8063/Landis-Kenesaw-Mountain.html#ixzz4hFvetdms

 

[chellers]

Kenesaw Mountain Landis

 

[57th Indiana Infantry]

Kenesaw Mountain Landis

 

[adisciu9]

Kenesaw Mountain Landis