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...Walrus-eyebrowed, cautious Branch Rickey, 60-year-old creator of baseball's farm system and its No. 1 exponent during 22 of the 25 years he ran the St. Louis Cardinals: the general managership of the Brooklyn Dodgers; succeeding extravagant, rollicking Larry MacPhail, his onetime protégé; for a five-year term; at a reported salary of $40,000, plus a bonus. The new Brooklyn boss has never watched a ball game on Sunday...
...Beautiful Bums. Then he moved in on Brooklyn, whose seventh-place Dodgers were in hock to the Brooklyn Trust Co., creditor for half a million dollars. MacPhail-who is never better than when talking hardheaded characters out of important sums-actually sweet-talked the Brooklyn Trust Co. into putting up $300,000 more and giving him full authority to spend it. He brought Red Barber on from Cincinnati; he put on all the stunts he had learned in Columbus and Cincinnati and added a superb new one which became the greatest drawing card in baseball history: he got every team...
...MacPhail spent half a million dollars for players. Again the MacPhail system paid out. In five years, playing to crowds of 1,000,000 a year in its home park alone, the club paid off all its obligations. And this year a full 45% of all paid admissions to National League games were for Dodger games...
...MacPhail & The Kaiser. Redheaded Larry MacPhail, age 14, played the organ in an Episcopal church in Scottville, Mich. At 16 he passed examinations for the U.S. Naval Academy, and naturally went off at once to college in Beloit, Wis., where he is remembered as one of the loudest debaters in college history. At 20, after graduating from the University of Michigan and getting a law degree at George Washington University, young MacPhail turned down an appointment to the French consular service. At 25 he was president of a Nashville department store. In Nashville, MacPhail met Luke...
Colonel Lea and Captain MacPhail had a hard time slowing down after the Armistice. On New Year's Day, 1919, they had a brilliant idea: let's capture the Kaiser. Taking six of their Tennesseans in two touring cars, they drove to Brussels, where they talked Brand Whitlock, U.S. Minister to Belgium, into giving them a pass into Holland-on a "journalistic investigation...