Word: macphail
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Died. Leland Stanford ("Larry") MacPhail, 85, former New York Yankee president and sportsworld impresario; of pneumonia; in Miami...
Until 1935 baseball remained an afternoon pastime; then MacPhail flooded Cincinnati's Crosley Field with banks of lights and gave a new dimension to the game. With his indomitable optimism he bailed clubs out of hock and transformed cellar teams into pennant winners: the Cincinnati Reds, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Yankees. Off the diamond, MacPhail put his improbable imagination to work in the practice of law, managing a department store, as a banker, a football referee, a church organist and a breeder of thoroughbred horses. As an artillery captain following the Armistice of World War I, he persuaded...
...proportions and turned black. Jaws, noses, ribs, teeth and limbs, the prisoners charged, were deliberately broken and left unset. The sick and wounded were left in their own excrement for days on end. Fan belts or lengths of rubber turned buttocks of beaten prisoners into raw flesh. Sergeant Don MacPhail said that he was hung from a tree over three fresh graves and beaten with sticks. He was told that he would be in the fourth grave...
...bother me," he said. "The only thing that's going to bother me is what they do on the mound." Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn predicted a "strained relationship" between Teammates Fritz and Mike ("I'd like to kill him," Mike said furiously). Nonetheless Yankee General Manager Lee MacPhail dismissed rumors that one of the pitchers would soon be involved in a conventional trade to avoid dissension. But he did admit to one concern: "We may have to call off Family...
...intended to assure the citizenry of its right to "the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic virtues of the environment." He has called on such notables as Architect Louis Kahn and Historian Bruce Catton to testify on the state's behalf. County Court Judge John A. MacPhail recently turned Creamer down, however, ruling that "historical Gettysburg has already been raped," and also noting that an Interior Department agreement with Ottenstein implied approval -a contention the department now denies. Creamer is moving the conflict this week to the Commonwealth Court, the state's intermediate appeals court. Ottenstein...