Baltimore Sun: Two generations of Orioles execs share game

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From the first row of Section 13 behind the home dugout at Fort Lauderdale Stadium, one of the more influential men in baseball history and his son, who has a couple of World Series rings himself, watched the Orioles play the Marlins.

The son keeping score, with his arm around his father’s chair. The father tightly holding an Orioles roster, studying it intently.

It was the first time they had done this in two years, attended a game together. It was the first time Lee MacPhail had ever seen his son’s Orioles, who once were his Orioles.

“I really enjoy following his career,” said the elder MacPhail, who lives in southeastern Florida, about an hour’s drive north of Fort Lauderdale. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1998, 20 years after his own father, Leland “Larry” MacPhail Sr., a longtime owner and baseball executive, was elected into the Hall.

For a while yesterday, three generations watched the game, as Lee MacPhail IV, the nephew of the Orioles president, the grandson of Lee Jr. and the Orioles director of pro scouting, sat down for an inning.