The commission was formed as part of the peace agreement between the AL and NL and abolished following the Black Sox Scandal.

[5] John E. Bruce, Johnson's personal attorney, was elected secretary and treasurer of the National Commission.

In 1912, the commission declared the original contract void because Sisler was a minor without parental permission at the time it was signed, and awarded his rights to the Browns.

[7] Barney Dreyfuss, the owner of the Pirates, never forgave Herrmann for the decision[8] and began to work to have him ousted as chairman.

When the two sides returned to his court in February 1916 to have the suit dismissed, Landis said that he waited to see if they could forge a settlement, because he had feared that issuing an injunction would have been harmful to baseball.

New York Supreme Court Justice Robert F. Wagner ruled in favor of the Yankees, granting a permanent injunction.

Though the Insurrectos were outnumbered by the five teams loyal to Johnson, they held three out of the four seats on the league's board of directors.

[20] In September 1920, a grand jury was called in Cook County, Illinois, to address an allegation of match fixing of a game between the Chicago Cubs and Philadelphia Phillies.

[23] Albert Lasker proposed the idea of having three individuals with no financial ties to baseball serving on the commission.