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When brisk, brash Larry MacPhail took over the New York Yankees last winter, newshawks asked: "How will McCarthy feel?" Last week Joe McCarthy felt sick...
...Larry MacPhail, who is also a worrier, found it hard to take. Finally, as everyone felt sure he would, he emerged from his lowering cloud of silence and publicly castigated the Yankees. Along with some dark threats about overpaid players, he charged: "It is one thing to be beaten and quite another to be outhustled. . . . We must have more life, more pepper...
Hastily absolving McCarthy of all blame for the Yankees' failures, MacPhail refused to accept the resignation. He suggested instead that Joe go home for a rest. The 58-year-old manager, who has suffered from a gall bladder ailment and who could certainly afford to retire if he felt like it (total earnings with the Yankees: some $500,000), shuffled off to Buffalo to think things...
...Chicago. But Larry MacPhail, who excludes the word "impossible" from his bulging vocabulary, had already decided to shake up his slumping club. Last week, neatly finessing waiver difficulties, he sold high-paid ($17,500 a year) Pitcher Hank Borowy (won 10, lost 5) to the National League-leading Chicago Cubs...
Married. Leland Stanford ("Larry") MacPhail, 55, redheaded, stem-winding N.Y. Yankees boss; and Jean Bennett Wanamaker, 35, his pretty secretary; both for the second time; in Baltimore...