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Landis' name pulled off baseball MVP plaques after 75 years
Read full article: Landis' name pulled off baseball MVP plaques after 75 yearsFILE - In this Jan. 22, 2006, file photo, a Joe DiMaggio 1947 MVP Award plaque is displayed at a news conference in New York. The name of Landis, the former baseball commissioner who never had a Black player in the majors during his long reign, is being pulled off all future MVP plaques after more than 75 years. Landis won't be depicted on the annual awards presented by the Baseball Writers Association of the America, the group said Friday, Oct. 2, 2020. Kenesaw Mountain Landis won't be depicted on the annual awards presented by the Baseball Writers’ Association of the America, the group said Friday. “To me, the MVP award should be something that’s all positive,” Larkin told the AP on Friday.
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MVP plaque presenters to discuss Landis' name on MLB trophy
Read full article: MVP plaque presenters to discuss Landis' name on MLB trophyFILE - In this Jan. 22, 2006, file photo,a Joe DiMaggio 1947 MVP Award Plaque is displayed at a news conference in New York. The plaque features the name and image of Kenesaw Mountain Landis. (AP Photo/Jennifer Szymaszek, File)NEW YORK The baseball organization that presents the annual MVP awards will consider whether the name of former commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis should be pulled from future plaques. Landis legacy is always a complicated story that includes documented racism, official MLB historian John Thorn said. Every AL and NL MVP plaque since Landis death has carried his name -- in letters twice as big as the winner -- and an imprint of his face.
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'A dark past': MVPs say time to pull Landis name off plaques
Read full article: 'A dark past': MVPs say time to pull Landis name off plaquesFILE - In this Jan. 22, 2006, file photo,a Joe DiMaggio 1947 MVP Award Plaque is displayed at a news conference in New York. The plaque features the name and image of Kenesaw Mountain Landis. The other name engraved on the trophy: Kenesaw Mountain Landis. If you have the Jackie Robinson Award and the Kenesaw Mountain Landis Award, you are at diametrically opposed poles, Thorn said. Larkin recalled that shortly after he was voted MVP, he got a call from two-time NL MVP Joe Morgan.