Larry MacPhail served as a high-ranking executive, including club president and general manager, with the Cincinnati Reds, Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Yankees, and was a one-third owner of the Yankees from 1945 through 1947.
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Larry MacPhail was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1978.
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Larry MacPhail's father founded State Savings Bank of Scottville, Michigan, in 1882 as well as twenty other small banks in that state.
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Larry MacPhail accompanied his commander, Colonel Luke Lea, on an unsanctioned mission to Amerongen in the Netherlands in January 1919 to attempt to arrest the exiled German monarch, Kaiser Wilhelm II, and bring him to the Paris Peace Conference to be tried for war crimes.
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Larry MacPhail reportedly stole an ashtray that belonged to the Kaiser and received an official reprimand for the mission.
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Larry MacPhail was promoted to team president, a position that had been vacant for about a year after the death of the previous team president Stephen McKeever, on May 4,1939.
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Larry MacPhail was pivotal in the development of pioneering sportscaster Red Barber, who announced Reds and Dodgers games for Larry MacPhail.
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Larry MacPhail's innovations include nighttime baseball, regular game televising, and flying teams between cities.
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Larry MacPhail resigned as president of the Dodgers on September 23,1942, to accept a commission in the United States Army.
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Larry MacPhail was well known for his unpredictable behavior which was fueled by bouts of heavy drinking.
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Larry MacPhail told Durocher that night that he was fired, but he changed his mind the next morning.
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In March 1952, Larry MacPhail was appointed President of Bowie Race Track in Bowie, Maryland.
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Larry MacPhail died in a Miami nursing home on October 1,1975, two days after well-known manager Casey Stengel.
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Larry MacPhail was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1998, making him and Larry MacPhail the only father and son inductees.
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