 After Landis' unforgiving treatment of the popular and basically honest Weaver they dared not to.And once prospectively crooked players knew that honest players would no longer shield them, "the scandals stopped".At the time of Landis's appointment as commissioner, it was common for professional baseball players to supplement their pay by participating in postseason "barnstorming" tours, playing on teams which would visit smaller cities and towns to play games for which admission would be charged.