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Ed Barrow the Bulldog Who Built the Ya

by Daniel R Levitt

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ISBN13: 9780803229747
ISBN10: 0803229747
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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 Barrows 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 Barrows genius for organizing, for recognizing baseball talent, and for exploiting the existing economic environment. Because Barrow was a player in so many of baseballs key events, his biography gives a clear and eye-opening picture of how Americas 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 sports competitive environment evolved and how the Yankees came to dominate it.

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"When we think about the beginnings of the Yankees' long dynasty, we think of Gehrig, and DiMaggio, and the Babe. Especially the Babe. But thanks to Dan Levitt, now we know that mastermind Ed Barrow belongs on that list, too. Perhaps at the top."-Rob Neyer, ESPN.com

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"[Ed Barrow] will undoubtedly go down as the definitive work on one of the most important baseball figures in the first half of the 20th century."-Rich Lederer, baseballanalytics.com

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"The author has an astounding facility with detail: The sheer number of names, dates and salaries he tosses around is mind-blowing, and the 18 informational tables in the appendix are worthy of inclusion in an economics textbook. . . . A labor of love of great value to Yankees fans and hard-core baseball junkies."-Kirkus Reviews

(Kirkus Reviews, Feb 15 2008 )

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"Levitt revisits the vexed matter of Sox owner Harry Frazee's motives in selling baseball's greatest player to New York and, in so doing, debunks the previous debunking of Glenn Stout and Richard A. Johnson in 2000, in Red Sox Century. . . . Eight years ago Stout and Johnson convinced me of their views; today I am just as convinced by Levitt."-Katherine A. Powers, Boston Globe

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"Substantive baseball history filtered through the career of one of the game's overlooked titans."-Wes Lukowsky, Booklist

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"A captivating overview of baseball from the `20s through the `40s."-Bill Madden, New York Daily News

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"Baseball scholars will delight in Dan Levitt's Ed Barrow, a meticulously detailed biography of one of the most important figures in baseball history."-Robert Creamer, author of Babe: The Legend Comes to Life and Stengel: His Life and Times

About the Author

Daniel R. Levitt is the coauthor of Paths to Glory: How Great Baseball Teams Got That Way, winner of the Sporting News–SABR Baseball Research Award. He has also published numerous baseball articles and biographical essays.

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ISBN:
9780803229747
Subtitle:
The Bulldog Who Built the Yankees' First Dynasty
Author:
Levitt, Daniel R
Author:
Levitt, Daniel R.
Publisher:
University of Nebraska Press
Subject:
Baseball - History
Subject:
Baseball managers
Subject:
History
Subject:
Sports - General
Subject:
Sports - Baseball
Subject:
Baseball managers -- United States.
Subject:
New York Yankees (Baseball team) - History
Copyright:
Edition Description:
Trade Cloth
Publication Date:
April 2008
Binding:
Hardcover
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
427
Dimensions:
9.50x6.50x1.50 in. 1.76 lbs.

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