Ed Barrow

Edward Grant "Ed" Barrow ( born May 10, 1868 in Springfield, Illinois, † December 15, 1953 in Port Chester, New York) was an American baseball manager and functionary in Major League Baseball.

Life

Ed Barrow was born 1868 in Springfield, Illinois. His first stop as a manager in the American League, he got in 1903 and 1904 with the Detroit Tigers. His teams occupied the fifth and seventh.

He was more successful in his second station for the Boston Red Sox. In his first nJahr he led his team to the championship in the American League. In the World Series, the Red Sox won against the Chicago Cubs in six games. However, he remained only two more years in Boston. The owner of the team Harry Frazee sold in these years many of the star players of the team, which further successes were heavy.

In 1921 he then moved on as a functionary of the New York Yankees. Here it should be much responsible in building the most outstanding team of baseball for the next three decades. By 1945, his New York team won fourteen championships in the American League and ten times the World Series. By cleverly transfers, a good scouting system and good development of talented players in Minor League Baseball he managed the construction of this dynasty.

One of his early discoveries was the future Hall of Famer at shortstop Honus Wagner, who gave his 1896 debut in Major League Baseball.

In 1953 he was elected by the Veterans Committee as an official and pioneer of baseball in the Baseball Hall of Fame. In the same year he died at the age of 88 in Port Chester, New York. A year later, the Yankees erected a plaque on the wall of the Fields Center at the Yankee Stadium, which is found in Monument Park today. The plaque calls him Moulder of a tradition of victory ( the founder of a victory tradition).

His positions as Manager

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