 Rennie, who had been merely sent by the Herald Tribune to cover formation of the Mexican League, finding both positive and negative aspects to the effort, was surprised to be named in the Yankees’ restraining order, and hastened back to New York to defend himself.Despite much media attention to the team's action against Rennie, with the possibility looming that it would blow up into a first amendment case, the matter quickly deflated when the temperamental Yankees president Larry MacPhail withdrew his suit, but not before Rennie was pressured by many in his journalistic cohort to atone by picking up numerous bar tabs; Rennie regained the Yankees’ good graces.Rud Rennie was in at the creation of another one of baseball's greatest news stories—though he didn’t write it, and remained cloaked for decades, past his death.