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July 12, 1941

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Borough Defender--I

Robert Lewis Taylor

PROFILE of Larry MacPhail, president of the Brooklyn Dodgers. The Dodgers are owned by the estates of the Ebbets & McKeeber families of Brooklyn. Each …

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