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Lee MacPhail, former AL president and part of great baseball family, dies at 95

[Boxer Jim Corbett (center) and Blossom Seeley (wife of Rube Marquard) to Corbett's left at Game One of the 1913 World Series at the Polo Grounds New York (baseball)] (LOC)
[Boxer Jim Corbett (center) and Blossom Seeley (wife of Rube Marquard) to Corbett's left at Game One of the 1913 World Series at the Polo Grounds New York (baseball)] (LOC) by The Library of Congress
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COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. –  Lee MacPhail, the former American League president who followed his father into baseball's Hall of Fame and whose son became a top executive for several major league teams, has died at 95. He was the oldest Hall of Famer, and he died Thursday night at his home in Delray Beach, Fla. , the Hall of Fame said Friday. "There's not much I haven't done off the field other than commissioner," he said during a 1985 interview with The Associated Press when he retired after 4 1-2 decades in the sport. In the second generation of one of baseball's most famous families — and part of the only father-son Hall of Fame pairing — MacPhail's most well-known moment in baseball came in 1983.

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Lee MacPhail

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Brett

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Andy MacPhail

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Leland Stanford MacPhail Jr.

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Larry MacPhail

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Billy Martin

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Tim McClelland

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Jane Forbes Clark

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-0.0379326"Baseball history has lost a great figure in Lee MacPhail, whose significant impact on the game spanned five decades," Hall chairman Jane Forbes Clark said. ...
0.0557518"Baseball history has lost a great figure in Lee MacPhail, whose significant impact on the game spanned five decades," Hall chairman Jane Forbes Clark said. "He will always be remembered in Cooperstown as a man of exemplary kindness and a man who always looked after the best interests of the game."
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Commissioner Spike Eckert

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George Steinbrenner

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Bobby Doerr

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Disambiguation: Athlete | HallOfFameInductee | MilitaryPersonReferences:

Andy

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Joe Brinkman

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Additional Info:

Sport: baseball

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Facility: The Hall

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Facility: Hall of Fame

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City: COOPERSTOWN

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Company: MacPhail

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Organization: New York Yankees

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