Word: macphail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Angeles, the Brooklyn Dodgers' Manager Leo ("Lippy") Durocher, fresh from signing a new contract (and telling the world that the Yankees' Larry MacPhail had tried to hire him away from the Dodgers, which MacPhail denied), got a friendly welcome at the airport from Cinemactress Laraine Day, who i) bussed him fondly, 2) announced to the panting press that they were just friends. Promptly another old friend, Powers Model Edna Ryan, now a little confused, rose and pinned a label on him: the Artful Dodger...
Publicity-wise Yankee President Larry MacPhail, who knew better, let the talk grow. He had picked his manager two weeks ago. This week, with great ado, he let the world in on his little secret. Shrewd Stanley ("Bucky") Harris, 49, known in the trade as a gentleman and a base-hit scholar, will run the Yankees...
...months ago, MacPhail hired him as "special assistant" and it looked as if Bucky at last could put his feet on a desk in the Yankees' plush, Fifth Avenue offices and relax. Then he got the manager...
...most fans, sportswriters, and perhaps to Bucky himself, he hardly seemed MacPhail's type of manager (the Boss is an old admirer of blustery Leo Durocher). The answer may be that the 1947 Yankees will be run by a triumvirate: MacPhail handing down orders from his ivory tower; Harris passing them on in the dugout. The man on the coaching lines (at third base) will be Coach Chuck Dressen, recently hired away from the Dodgers, and one of the best detail men in baseball...
Yankee President Larry MacPhail promptly picked McCarthy's successor: William Malcolm ("Bill") Dickey, 38, perhaps the best catcher ever to put on a big-league mitt. He was first-string backstop when McCarthy took over the Yankees in 1931, and was still behind the plate last week. Bill Dickey was a big fellow (6 ft. 3 in.) who seldom had much to say, but a nice way of saying it. His only previous experience as a manager was in the Navy: his club won six straight against the Army in 1945's Service World Series...