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...hammer into a million-dollar construction business. The other big moneyman was Marine Corps Captain Dan Topping, heir to a tin-plate fortune and owner of the Brooklyn Football Tigers.* The man with the ideas was baseball's brilliant screwball, redheaded Colonel Leland Stanford ("Larry") MacPhail -who aging ex-Boss Ed Barrow once said would buy the Yankees "over my dead body...
...approximately $3,000,000 they got a bargain: Yankee Stadium (original cost: $3,000,000) the Yankee ball club and four minor league ball clubs, 350 baseball players. For himself, MacPhail got a juicy ten-year contract as president and general manager. The once conservative Yankees will never be the same with him around...
...boss of the Cincinnati Reds a decade ago, Larry the Red painted the park orange, introduced usherettes and night baseball. Attendance figures doubled. He founded a farm system that brought Cincinnati two pennants, one world championship. Then MacPhail took over the seventh-place Brooklyn Dodgers, who were in hock to the Brooklyn Trust Co. for a half-million dollars. He talked the banking gentlemen out of another $300,000, peeled off dizzy amounts for new players, promoted crowd-drawing grudge fights with every club in the National League. When he quit Flatbush for the Army three years ago (the colonel...
...first time Larry MacPhail takes over a baseball business that is making money. But he sees plenty of opportunity for his club-building talents. He makes no exceptions when he says that big-league teams will have to start from scratch after...
Despite statistics which prove night baseball to be a financial lifesaver, many baseball men, including Lieut. Colonel Larry MacPhail, who introduced lighting to the major leagues in Cincinnati, fear that so much of it is dangerous to postwar business. They are afraid that baseball patrons will grow to expect such backbreaking schedules as doubleheaders on Sundays and holidays and games every night in the week. Another worry is that children, less likely to attend night than day baseball, may not get so interested in the game...