FROM THE BASEBALL CHRONOLOGY
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The Yankees are sold by the Ruppert estate to Larry MacPhail, Dan Topping, and Del Webb for $2.8 million. For that price the trio obtains 400 players, 266 of them in military service, Yankee Stadium, parks in Newark and Kansas City, and leases on other minor league ballparks. Jake Ruppert, who died in 1939, paid more than the new purchase price for the ground on which Yankee Stadium was built in 1923.
» October 7, 1947:
Larry MacPhail resigns as Yankees general manager
moments after the final game of the series. Co-owners
Dan Topping and Del Webb then buy out MacPhail's one-third
interest in the club for $2 million. George Weiss
will become GM.
» December 14, 1950: The baseball owners choose Lou Perini (Braves), Phil Wrigley (Cubs), Del Webb (Yankees), and Ellis Ryan (Indians) to select a new commissioner as rapidly as possible.
» October 18, 1960: Instituting a mandatory retirement age of 65, New York Yankee co-owners Dan Topping and Del Webb relieve Casey Stengel (1,149-696) as manager. Stengel: "I wasn't retired—they fired me."
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