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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When brisk, brash Larry MacPhail took over the New York Yankees last winter, newshawks asked: "How will McCarthy feel?" Last week Joe McCarthy felt sick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Nervous Yankee | 8/6/1945 | See Source »

Married. Leland Stanford ("Larry") MacPhail, 55, redheaded, stem-winding N.Y. Yankees boss; and Jean Bennett Wanamaker, 35, his pretty secretary; both for the second time; in Baltimore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 28, 1945 | 5/28/1945 | See Source »

Divorced. Leland Stanford ("Larry'') MacPhail, 55, baseball's bleacher-lunged showman, now boss of the New York Yankees ; by Inez Thompson MacPhail, 55; after 34 years of marriage, five of separation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 14, 1945 | 5/14/1945 | See Source »

Chairman. When one after another failed to muster a majority, it looked as though the meeting would wash out with a rain check. But the Yankees' new boss, irrepressible Larry MacPhail, demanded action, and threatened to "lock the door and keep it locked" until a new commissioner was named...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Happy Compromise | 5/7/1945 | See Source »

...York's Yankees, with Larry MacPhail now calling the front office shots, are praying twice a day that the Navy won't call up clouting Johnny Lindell. The Yanks still have the best manager in baseball: square-jawed Joe McCarthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pennant Prospects | 4/9/1945 | See Source »

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