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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