An edition of Ed Barrow (2008)

Ed Barrow

The Bulldog Who Built the Yankees' First Dynasty

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February 28, 2024 | History
An edition of Ed Barrow (2008)

Ed Barrow

The Bulldog Who Built the Yankees' First Dynasty

Before the feuding owners turned to Ed Barrow to be general manager in 1920, the Yankees had never won a pennant. They won their first in 1921 and during Barrow’s tenure went on to win thirteen more as well as ten World Series. This biography of the incomparable Barrow is also the story of how he built the most successful sports franchise in American history.

Barrow spent fifty years in baseball. He was in the middle of virtually every major conflict and held practically every job except player. Daniel R. Levitt describes Barrow's pre-Yankees years, when he managed Babe Ruth and the Boston Red Sox to their last World Series Championship before the “curse.” He then details how Barrow assembled a winning Yankees team both by purchasing players outright and by developing talent through a farm system.

The story of the making of the great Yankees dynasty reveals Barrow’s genius for organizing, for recognizing baseball talent, and for exploiting the existing economic environment. Because Barrow was a player in so many of baseball’s key events, his biography gives a clear and eye-opening picture of how America’s sport was played in the twentieth century, on the field and off. A complex portrait of a larger-than-life character in the annals of baseball, this book is also an inside history of how the sport’s competitive environment evolved and how the Yankees came to dominate it.

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English
Pages
456

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Cover of: Ed Barrow
Ed Barrow: The Bulldog Who Built the Yankees' First Dynasty
2010, University of Nebraska Press
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Cover of: Ed Barrow
Ed Barrow: The Bulldog Who Built the Yankees' First Dynasty
April 1, 2008, University of Nebraska Press
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Library of Congress
GV865.B3L48 2008, GV865.B3 L48 2008

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Number of pages
456

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Open Library
OL11211992M
Internet Archive
edbarrowbulldogw00levi_0
ISBN 10
0803229747
ISBN 13
9780803229747
LCCN
2007040521
OCLC/WorldCat
174112655
Library Thing
5075765
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2237219

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