Beschreibung:

DOCUMENT CREATING OFFICE OF BASEBALL COMMISSIONER Following the 1919 World Series in which eight players participated in throwing games and the trials of those players in 1920, the league presidents and sixteen team owners met and agreed upon the establishment of the office of Commissioner. Entitled Major League Agreement the documents preamble reads Agreement between the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs and each of its eight constituent clubs, of the one part and the American League of Professional Baseball Clubs and each of its eight constituent clubs, of the other part . The agreement set out the extensive powers of the office of Commissioner of Baseball, set a salary of $50,000 per year, and appointed Kenesaw Mountain Landis as baseballs first Commissioner. Both Leagues agreed to be bound by any decisions of the Commissioner and waived the right to appeal to the the courts. The agreement is dated January 12, 1921 and is signed by League Presidents John C. Heydler and Ban Johnson and all sixteen club owners including Charles Ebbets, William Veeck, G. Herrmann, Barney Dreyfuss, Harry Frazee, Charles Comiskey, Jacob Ruppert and Clark Griffith. This signed copy was Commissioner Landis' own copy and is consigned by the family of Leslie O'Connor, who was Landis' personal secretary. An important historic document in the history of Baseball.