This Day in Baseball: Tris Speaker and Ty Cobb Cleared by Landis

By Precious Sanders @pdsanders99

On December 21, 1926, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis dismissed a claim by Dutch Leonard alleging that Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker bet on a fixed game six years previous. The commissioner declared the matter closed, clearing both Speaker and Cobb of any wrongdoing when Leonard did not show up at a hearing to defend his accusations.

Kenesaw Mountain Landis