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Publicity-wise Yankee President Larry MacPhail, who knew better, let the talk grow. He had picked his manager two weeks ago. This week, with great ado, he let the world in on his little secret. Shrewd Stanley ("Bucky") Harris, 49, known in the trade as a gentleman and a base-hit scholar, will run the Yankees...
...months ago, MacPhail hired him as "special assistant" and it looked as if Bucky at last could put his feet on a desk in the Yankees' plush, Fifth Avenue offices and relax. Then he got the manager...
Yankee President Larry MacPhail promptly picked McCarthy's successor: William Malcolm ("Bill") Dickey, 38, perhaps the best catcher ever to put on a big-league mitt. He was first-string backstop when McCarthy took over the Yankees in 1931, and was still behind the plate last week. Bill Dickey was a big fellow (6 ft. 3 in.) who seldom had much to say, but a nice way of saying it. His only previous experience as a manager was in the Navy: his club won six straight against the Army in 1945's Service World Series...
Although the solemn Tigers had stumbled and bumbled before applying the clincher, betters made them 13 to 10 favorites over their World Series rivals, the Chicago Cubs. Thanks to Pitcher Hank Borowy (and with the compliments of Yankee Boss Larry MacPhail, who decided in mid-season that he needed $100,000 more than he needed an outstanding pitcher like Borowy), the Cubs copped their pennant a day earlier-after giving Chicagoans almost as many palpitations as Detroiters had ruffered...
Borowy, who promptly won his first start for the Cubs, might well nail down the pennant for them. In return MacPhail said that the Yankees would get unnamed players worth $100,000, or their cash equivalent. He added: "This is the first step in the general plan [for rebuilding] that Manager McCarthy and I have agreed upon...