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Larry MacPhail

Bits and pieces, Jan. 23

January 23, 2014

Looking over the over-looked in baseball book (etc.) news… Now that the Yankees have once again spent a gagillion dollars restocking their pond, it’s time for another book examining how eeeeee-vil they are. And that’s the premise (and most of the title) of The Little Book of Yankees Evil by Brook Zelcer and Jelena Aleksich. The […]

Tagged as: Alex Rodriguez, Larry MacPhail, Moe Berg, New York Yankees, Richard Ben Cramer, S.L. Price, Sports Illustrated

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Birthday greetings

February 3, 2008

Belatedly, to Red Schoendienst, a baseball “lifer” since 1945. Schoendienst, who played for the St. Louis Cardinals, New York Giants, and Milwaukee  Braves, suffered a bout of tuberculosis as a player back in 1958 while with Milwaukee. Following a recuperative stay at a sanitarium, he made a courageous comeback that was chronicled by Al Hirshberg […]

Tagged as: Larry MacPhail, Red Schoendienst

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