biography
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Chandler, Happy
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popular name of Albert Benjamin Chandler
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| male
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| lived:
| (1898–1991)
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| biography:
| Public official and baseball commissioner, born in Corydon, Kentucky, USA. He served as Governor of Kentucky (1935–9) and a Democratic US senator (1939–45) before being named as baseball's second commissioner (1945–51). He presided over the game during the breaking of baseball's colour line by Jackie Robinson in 1947. He was known as a ‘players' commissioner’ because he took an interest in all aspects of the game. He served a second term as Governor of Kentucky (1955–9), and in 1982 was elected to baseball's Hall of Fame. |
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