Lee McPhail

From NYT obituary:

Leland Stanford MacPhail Jr. was born on Oct. 25, 1917, in Nashville. He graduated from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, where he played baseball and football. In 1941 he became the business manager of the Dodgers’ Interstate League farm team in Reading, Pa., while his father was bringing a pennant to Brooklyn for the first time in 21 years as the Dodgers’ general manager.

Except for teaching history at Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts and serving in the Navy during World War II, Mr. MacPhail said, “my whole working life was baseball.”

In his autobiography, “My 9 Innings,” published in 1989, Mr. MacPhail was self-effacing in describing the scene when he would go home after a day at the ballpark.

“When I came out after a game, there were a gang of kids waiting to get the players’ autographs, and especially in my younger days I would be mobbed,” he wrote. “Someone at the back of the group would yell, ‘Who is it?’ and then one of the kids who had gotten my autograph would exclaim in disgust, ‘Oh, he’s nobody.’ But you couldn’t not sign; they wouldn’t believe it if you tried to tell them you were nobody.”

In 1998, 20 years after his father was inducted, Lee MacPhail was enshrined at Cooperstown.

Jim Bibby

Gene J. Puskar/Associated Press. Jim Bibby in 1979.

Jim Bibby, Who Pitched for Pirates in World Series, Dies at 65
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) — Jim Bibby, who pitched for the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 1979 World Series, died here on Tuesday. He was 65 and lived in Madison Heights, Va. His death was confirmed by Community Funeral Home. The cause was not disclosed.

Bibby played 12 years in the majors, starting in 1972. In 1973 he pitched the first no-hitter in Texas Rangers history, beating Oakland, 6-0. He was a member of the Pittsburgh team that won the 1979 World Series, starting two games against Baltimore, including the deciding seventh game.

Bibby’s best season was 1980, when he went 19-6 and was a member of the National League All-Star team. He also played for St. Louis and Cleveland, compiling a career record of 111-101 and a 3.76 earned run average.

Bibby came from an athletic family. Henry Bibby, his brother, played basketball for the Knicks and the Philadelphia 76ers and coached the University of Southern California team; he is now an assistant coach with the Memphis Grizzlies of the N.B.A. His nephew Mike Bibby plays for the Atlanta Hawks.

In addition to his brother, he is survived by his wife, Jacqueline, and two daughters, Tamara Bibby and Tanya McClain.

After retiring from the majors, Bibby was the pitching coach for the Lynchburg minor league team for 15 years. He retired after spending a year with the Pirates’ Nashville affiliate in 2000.