A number of colorful characters make up the roster of judges who have led Chicago’s federal trial court over the last century. One of the favorites of U.S. District Judge Marvin E. Aspen is Kenesaw Mountain Landis, whose roles as the first commissioner of baseball — a position created in the wake of the 1919 Black Sox scandal — and as the top judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois overlapped for more than a year. “This was Illinois’ first case of &lsquo …