Leland Stanford "Larry" MacPhail, Sr. (born 3 February 1890 in Cass City, Michigan - died 1 October 1975 in Miami, Florida) was an American executive and innovator in Major League Baseball. Prior to World War I MacPhail was an executive of a department store in Nashville, Tennessee and during World War I, he served as an artillery captain in France and Belgium. He 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 Kaiser, Wilhelm II, and bring him to the Paris Peace Conference to be tried for war crimes. During his baseball career he served as the chief executive of the Cincinnati Reds, the Brooklyn Dodgers, and the New York Yankees. His innovations include nighttime baseball, regular game televising and the flying of teams between games. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1978; his son Lee MacPhail was elected to the Hall in 1998, making them the only father and son inductees.

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• Baseball Hall of Fame
• Baseball Library - biography and career highlights

Baseball Hall of Fame | Baseball executives | Major League Baseball general managers | 1890 births | 1975 deaths