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Barry Larkin, former MVPs want Kenesaw Mountain Landis' name removed from award

National Baseball Hall of Famer and former Cincinnati Reds great Barry Larkin is among previous Most Valuable Player award winners calling for Kenesaw Mountain Landis' name to be removed from the award.

Landis was the first Commissioner of Baseball, from 1920 until he died in 1944. He is from Millville, Ohio, a small town about five miles west of Hamilton.

No Blacks played in Major League Baseball during Landis' tenure as commissioner. Jackie Robinson broke the barrier less than three years after Landis died.

Larkin, who starred at Moeller High School and now serves as a special assistant of player development for the Reds, was the National League MVP in 1995.