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...first,, no one quite believed Yankee Boss Larry MacPhail when he said he was through (TIME, Oct. 13). Not that MacPhail, tearful and waving an empty beer bottle, had not made it plain: "That's it, goddamit, that's my retirement," he roared in the first moment of the Yankees' World Series victory. Even Dan Topping and Del Webb, Larry's wealthy co-partners, were disbelieving. "He's a sentimental fellow," said Topping. "I wouldn't put too much stock in what he's saying...
...celebration was just getting under way in the Yankee dressing room when Yankee Boss Larry MacPhail made a little speech. It was his first World Series championship in 18 years of baseball and also his last. He was retiring, he said. "Thank the Lord I can go out with a winner...
Boss Larry MacPhail, who had wisely kept his nose out of the New York Yankees' locker room all season, rushed in to join the celebration. His Yankees had just clinched the 1947 American League pennant, and were having themselves a time...
...sparks the show, but Joe himself says: "It's the man at the helm ... the pilot." The man at the helm is shrewd Manager Bucky Harris. Not the least of his talents is keeping peace between the players and rambunctious Larry MacPhail, the club president. The blowoff that cleared the air came May 22, when MacPhail fined six stubborn players (including DiMaggio) for refusing to cooperate with the Yankee promotion office. From that day, with the team mad, the Yankees rolled up 34 victories in the next 46 games. Harris' pre-game pep talk was always the same...
...Dodgers next year depended on his own behavior for the rest of the year, and how well the Dodgers did without him. Said Rickey: "We'll see." One possibility: if the Dodgers don't take Leo back he might end up next spring as manager of MacPhail's New York Yankees. Despite their squabbles, Leo and Larry were two of a kind, and understand each other...