Ed Barrow
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Edward Grant Barrow (May 10, 1868 - December 15, 1953) was an American manager and executive in Major League Baseball who guided the Boston Red Sox to the 1918 World Series title, then built the New York Yankees into baseball's premier franchise and greatest dynasty as their top executive from 1921 to 1945. Barrow would use trades, the development of talent through a farm system and the outright purchase of players to build a Yankee team that would win 14 pennants and 10 World Series between 1921 and 1945.
Born in Springfield, Illinois, Barrow got his first chance at managing in the major leagues with the Detroit Tigers during the 1903 and 1904 seasons, when the team finished 5th and 7th respectively. He won the World Series in his first year with the Red Sox, but managed the team only two more years as owner Harry Frazee began selling the contracts of star players.
Barrow is also credited with discovering future Baseball Hall of Fame shortstop Honus Wagner in 1896.
Barrow was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame by the Veteran's Committee in 1953. He died later that year in Port Chester, New York at age 85. Ed Barrow is interred in Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, Westchester County, New York.On April 15, 1954, the Yankees dedicated a plaque to Barrow, which first hung on the center field wall at Yankee Stadium, near the flagpole and the monuments to Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Miller Huggins, and later in the Stadium's Monument Park. The plaque called him "Moulder of a tradition of victory."
External links
- [Baseball Hall of Fame]
- [Baseball-Reference.com] - career statistics and analysis as manager
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