Word: macphail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fifth bayside house on Bay Lane, says that she is "delighted to have the Nixons as neighbors. We know them only slightly, and we don't bother them." Key Biscayners are used to notables. Among residents are Sportscaster Red Barber, Aircraft Pioneer Grover Loening, N.Y. Yankee Official Larry MacPhail, Samuel C. Johnson, president of Johnson's Wax, Jack Paar and International Telephone and Telegraph President Harold S. Geneen. No longer on the scene is Candy Mossier, acquitted in 1966 of the murder of her wealthy husband Jacques. For the most part, residents seem quietly pleased that Nixon...
...sports programs. But NBC has already led the way, scheduling three night baseball games next summer. CBS has not definitely scheduled all the night games, but one date is sure: Thanksgiving of '66, at 9:30 E.S.T. "Eventually," suspects CBS's vice president for sports Bill MacPhail, "there may be a sports night on a network...
...each of which will collect $1.2 million. The football teams, with crowds averaging 50,000 a game, have little fear of endangering their stadium attendance; CBS, which pulls about 13 million viewers for its N.F.L. games, could not afford to let the league go elsewhere. Says CBS's MacPhail, "They need us and we need them...
...Force, would give the office back some of the dignity it had lost since autocratic Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis ruled the leagues from 1921 to 1944. So someone around the place would know something about the game, the club owners decided to install a "cabinet" headed by Lee MacPhail, 48, who was born into baseball (his father was once president of the New York Yankees) and who will sell his interest in the Baltimore Orioles to take the $40,000-a-year...
...MacPhail put in a call to Yankee Owner Dan Topping. Was Yogi Berra available for the job? No, Topping replied: Yogi was going to manage the Yankees in 1964. Then MacPhail sounded out Eddie Stanky-but Stanky wanted a long-term contract. Finally, MacPhail found his man right in the Baltimore dugout: Oriole Coach Hank Bauer. Said Bauer, "I don't know whether I'm the first, second, third or 20th choice for this job, but I'll say one thing-if it was offered to anyone else, they were crazy not to accept. It makes...