Word: macphail
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Taut Ship. It was as lawyer that O'Malley first went to the Dodgers. In 1942, when Larry MacPhail resigned as general manager and went into the Army as a lieutenant colonel, O'Malley was hired as the Dodgers' attorney. He succeeded no less a personage than Wendell Willkie, and he obviously saw more opportunity in baseball than Willkie ever dreamed of. Within a short time, O'Malley was loading up heavily with Dodger stock...
...shrewd bit of trading. Topping and Webb, in partnership with Yankee President Larry MacPhail, had bought the Yankees team, stadium and four farm clubs for $2,800,000 from the estate of Colonel Jacob Ruppert eight years ago. Later they bought out MacPhail's one third share for $2,000,000. After last week's deal with Johnson, Topping and Webb still owned the Yankees, had got back nearly twice their entire investment, and were in a position to write off rent on the stadium against taxes...
...Brooklyn Dodgers, who came within two games of winning the National League pennant last season, dismissed Manager Burt Shotton, longtime friend of the departed Branch Rickey. Brooklyn's new manager: pepperpot Charley Dressen, 52, onetime Brooklyn coach in the razzle-dazzle era of Larry MacPhail and Leo Durocher, manager last season of the Oakland Oaks, Pacific Coast League champions. Dressen, who got a one-year contract, said that his policy could be expressed very simply: "To win games for Brooklyn...
...Which for 16 years (1929-45) helped run the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team, as one of the executors of the estate of the late baseball magnate Charles H. Ebbets. After the hapless Dodgers had wallowed in the second division for five years straight, the bank hired Larry MacPhail as general manager in 1938. MacPhail drove the Dodgers to a National League pennant in 1941, paid off a mountain of debts (some $500,000 to the Brooklyn Trust) by 1942. †The top four: Bank of America, National City Bank of New York, Chase National Bank, and Guaranty Trust...
...McCarthy suddenly resigned from the Yankees "for reasons of health," after a series of front-office rows with President Larry MacPhail. Coaxed out of retirement in 1948 by the Red Sox, he lost the pennant on the last day of the season, two years in a row. Always hard to get along with, never a good loser, McCarthy rushed home at season's end last fall without even discussing a new contract. Last week, after his favored Red Sox dropped eleven out of 13 games, he finally gave...