Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis HUM Images/ Universal Images Gro

Usually, these kinds of anniversary stories have a nice, round number attached to them — 25 years since, 50 years since, 100 years since. This one doesn’t. This one notes a forgotten piece of baseball history that seems awfully relevant all of a sudden,

Today, we remember Nov. 23, 1943.

Today, we remember the day when William D. Cox was thrown out of baseball by the sport’s most famous hanging judge, Kenesaw Mountain Landis.

Who, you wonder, is William D. Cox?

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