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At one point, during the 1960s and '70s, CBS Sports, under MacPhail, owned the rights to all major sports events—pro football, basketball, the Triple Crown, the
Masters tournament and other major golf events, except Major League Baseball. MacPhail attempted to acquire the baseball rights, then owned
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MacPhail worked his way up in the front office of several minor league teams. He was traveling road secretary for the New York
Yankees in 1946 and then worked for eight years for three minor league teams before becoming director of publicity for the
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While head of CNN Sports, MacPhail acquired news rights from Major League
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799:Key figures
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683:James Brown
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659:Al Michaels
571:John Madden
547:Dick Enberg
238:Daryn Kagan
222:Dan Patrick
151:1960 Winter
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870:Categories
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792:CBS Sports
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667:Bob Trumpy
651:Len Dawson
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587:Van Miller
579:Don Criqui
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260:References
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627:Irv Cross
555:Ray Scott
523:Jack Buck
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366:Archived
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