Lee MacPhail

Hall of fame inductee

1917 – 2012

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Who was Lee MacPhail?

Leland Stanford MacPhail, Jr. was an American front-office executive in Major League Baseball. MacPhail was a baseball executive for 45 years, serving as the director of player personnel for the New York Yankees, the president and general manager of the Baltimore Orioles, chief aide to Commissioner of Baseball William Eckert, executive vice president and general manager of the Yankees, and president of the American League.

He and Larry MacPhail are the only father-and-son pair to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Lee was honored in 1998. Before his death in 2012, MacPhail had been the oldest living Hall of Famer.

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Born
Oct 25, 1917
Nashville
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Children
Nationality
  • United States of America
Education
  • Riverdale Country School
Lived in
  • Nashville
Died
Nov 8, 2012
Delray Beach

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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