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Brooklyn had its wind knocked out last week. The Dodgers lost the National League pennant to the smashing St. Louis Cardinals on the last day of the season. But the big loss was the Big Wind: the Dodger president, Leland Stanford ("Larry") MacPhail. Lieut. Colonel MacPhail, 52, reports next week to the Army, hopeful that his fighting experience (World War I and innumerable bar, hotel-lobby, and press-gallery fisticuffs) will get him combat duty...
...twelve years The MacPhail had built himself one of the gaudiest baseball reputations in all the game's 103 years. He broke in to baseball in 1930 as owner of the minor-league Columbus Redbirds. Three years later he hit his stride as general manager of the Cincinnati Reds. He painted the park orange; introduced usherettes and night baseball; groomed a slick radio announcer, Red Barber (TIME, Sept. 28), to sell the club to radio listeners; founded a farm system that brought Cincinnati two pennants and a world championship...
Result of his first attempt as a 1942 Dodger: Cincinnati Reds, 0; Newsom, 2 -a four-hit whitewash which sounded to Owner MacPhail like Series money already in the cash register. But four days later, Bobo was terrible again-the Boston Braves knocked him out of the box in the sixth...
...Larry MacPhail's Brooklyn Dodgers: a 9-to-6 win over the baby-blue-clad Chicago Cubs; giving the Dodgers 71 victories out of the first 100 games played this season and placing them only one game behind the National League record set by John McGraw's New York Giants in 1912; at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn...
...When MacPhail was incrognito and da Bums wuz in da cellar...