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Lee MacPhail
Lee MacPhail (Baseball. Born, Nashville, TN, Oct. 25, 1917.) Son of one of baseball’s most flamboyant and influential characters, Leland Stanford MacPhail, Jr., was mainly understated and soft-spoken but nonetheless influential. Lee MacPhail was part of the Yankees organization twice and later president of the American League (1974-83). A graduate of Swarthmore, he started as […]
Goose Gossage
Goose Gossage (Baseball. Born, Colorado Springs, CO, July 5, 1951.) A one-time starter who had been converted to a reliever, Richard Michael Gossage signed with the Yankees as a free agent after the 1977 season. The A.L.’s dominant closer for most of his six seasons with the Yankees, Gossage, a righthander with an overpowering fastball, […]
