Only four men have been elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame solely based on their achievements as general managers: Ed Barrow (Yankees), Larry MacPhail (Reds, Dodgers, Yankees), Branch Rickey ...

So why were they willing to dump him? Borowy’s SABR biography explains, referring to Yankees team president and co-owner Larry MacPhail: MacPhail had a simple explanation. He had been in the ...

1945 — Larry MacPhail, Dan Topping and Del Webb buy the New York Yankees for $2.8 million. 1960 — Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors sets a record for rookies with 58 points in a ...

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 ...