Talk:National Baseball Commission

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Did you know... that after the 1918 season, some Major League Baseball owners wanted the National Baseball Commission to be replaced by former president William Howard Taft?

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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 02:01, 19 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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The National Baseball Commission in 1909

~~... that the National Baseball Commission (pictured) was abolished following the Black Sox Scandal? Source: [1]~~
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Earl K. Fernandes

Created by Muboshgu (talk). Self-nominated at 02:02, 16 April 2022 (UTC).[reply]

New enough, plenty long enough. It does need two more citations - first paragraph under "Background" and the second sentence under "Collapse" are missing an inline citation. No other policy issues. The hook is short enough, and factually true. But it implies to me that the dissolution of the commission was related to the scandal, yet the article doesn't really explain any cause/affect. Also, the "Collape" section first mentions Heydler in the first sentence without explaining who he is. The reader has to go back to the infobox, or look down under Membership, to place him in context. I think that is a little confusing. MB 06:18, 16 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- @MB:, I deleted the uncited sentence and will spell out who Heydler was. The Black Sox Scandal was the last straw for the National Commission. I don't want to state it as a direct cause-and-effect, because there were other factors, but the scandal was the impetus for the change from the commission to the sole commissioner. What followed were rumors, denials, accusations and dismissals. The White Sox continued to throw games in 1920, with McMullin acting as point man. Reporters’ pleas for action were shot down by Garry Herrmann, chairman of the ruling National Commission and also Cincinnati’s owner. After sharing headlines with Babe Ruth all summer, the story broke wide open. On Sept. 27, 1920, the Philadelphia North American reported that Games 1, 2 and 8 had been thrown and named Burns and Abe Attell as fixers. Cicotte and Jackson confessed to an Illinois grand jury. Comiskey, his team locked in a tight pennant race with Cleveland, reluctantly suspended the eight players. Panicky owners begged Landis, a federal judge in the District of Illinois, to accept the new position of commissioner.[2] Club owners brought in iron-fisted Judge Landis as the first baseball commissioner, replacing the three-person National Commission, to clean up the game.[3] – Muboshgu (talk) 16:25, 16 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
ALT1: ... that after the 1918 season, some Major League Baseball owners wanted to replace the National Baseball Commission (pictured) with President William Howard Taft? – Muboshgu (talk) 18:09, 16 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

ALT1 is much more interesting that ALT0, verified and properly cited (I did add 1918), QPQ done, ready to approve, but the paragraph without a citation remains. MB 17:48, 17 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@MB:, sources added. – Muboshgu (talk) 22:04, 17 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

MB 22:07, 17 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]