Larry MacPhail
Leland Stanford Larry MacPhail, Sr. was an American lawyer and an executive and innovator in Major League Baseball . He served as an executive with several professional baseball teams, including the Cincinnati Reds, Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Yankees. MacPhails sons and grandsons were also sports executives. He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1978.
MacPhail was born in Cass City on February 3, 1890. His father founded State Savings Bank of Scottville, Michigan, in 1882 as well as twenty other small banks in that state. He obtained an LL.B. from the George Washington University Law School, where he became friends with Branch Rickey. He worked for a time with a Chicago law firm. Prior to World War I Larry MacPhail was an executive of a department store in Nashville, Tennessee.
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