Judge and Jury: The Life and Times of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis

Judge and Jury: The Life and Times of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis by Pietrusza, David. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781888698091.

Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis is most famous for his role as the first Commissioner ever to rule organized baseball. But before he came into his legendary position as baseballs final say, Landis already had built a reputation from his Chicago courtroom as the most popular and most controversial federal judge in World War I-era America. Judge and Jury is the first complete biography of the Squire, from the origins of his unusual name through his career as a federal judge and his clean-up after the infamous Black Sox scandal.