44 Facts About Ed Barrow

Edward Grant Barrow was an American manager and front office executive in Major League Baseball.

Ed Barrow served as the field manager of the Detroit Tigers and Boston Red Sox.

Ed Barrow served as business manager of the New York Yankees from 1921 to 1939 and as team president from 1939 to 1945, and is credited with building the Yankee dynasty.

Ed Barrow returned to baseball in 1910 as president of the Eastern League.

Ed Barrow was born in Springfield, Illinois, the oldest of four children, all male, born to Effie Ann Vinson-Heller and John Ed Barrow.

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Ed Barrow's father fought in the Ohio Volunteer Militia during the American Civil War.

Ed Barrow worked as mailing clerk for the Des Moines News in 1887, receiving a promotion to circulation manager within a year.

Ed Barrow became a reporter for the Des Moines Leader after graduating from high school.

Ed Barrow moved to Pittsburgh in 1889, where he worked as a soap salesman, believing there was money in this business.

However, Ed Barrow lost all of money in this business, and went to work as a desk clerk in a Pittsburgh hotel.

Ed Barrow partnered with Harry Stevens in 1894 to sell concessions at baseball games.

Ed Barrow helped George Moreland form the Interstate League, a Class-C minor league, in 1894.

Ed Barrow served as field manager until the collapse of the league that season.

Ed Barrow then bought the Paterson Silk Weavers of the Class-A Atlantic League, managing them for the rest of the 1896 season.

Ed Barrow discovered Honus Wagner throwing lumps of coal at a railroad station in Pennsylvania, and signed him to his first professional contract.

Ed Barrow sold Wagner to the Louisville Colonels of the National League for $2,100 the next year.

Ed Barrow hired Lizzie Arlington, the first woman in professional baseball, to pitch a few innings a game.

Ed Barrow managed Paterson again in 1899, but the league folded after the season.

Rebuilding the Maple Leafs, Ed Barrow acquired talented players, such as Nick Altrock, and the team improved from a fifth-place finish in 1899, to a third-place finish in 1900, and a second-place finish in 1901.

Ed Barrow managed in the major leagues with the Detroit Tigers of the AL in 1903, finishing fifth, a 13-game improvement from their 1902 finish.

Ed Barrow managed the Tigers again in 1904, but unable to coexist with Frank Navin, Yawkey's secretary-treasurer, Ed Barrow tendered his resignation.

Ed Barrow then managed the Montreal Royals of the Eastern League for the rest of the season.

Ed Barrow managed the Indianapolis Indians of the Class-A American Association in 1905 and Toronto in 1906.

Disheartened with baseball after finishing in last place, Ed Barrow hired Joe Kelley to manage Toronto in 1907, and after signing the rest of the team's players, became manager of the Windsor Arms Hotel in Toronto.

Ed Barrow served in this role from 1911 through 1917, and engineered the name change to "International League" before the 1912 season.

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Ed Barrow attempted to gain major league status for the league in 1914, but was unsuccessful.

Ed Barrow traded Dutch Leonard, Duffy Lewis, and Ernie Shore to the New York Yankees, obtaining Ray Caldwell, Slim Love, Frank Gilhooley, Roxy Walters, and cash.

Ed Barrow took control of building the roster, which was usually the field manager's responsibility in those days.

Ed Barrow installed himself in the Yankees' infrastructure between co-owner Tillinghast L'Hommedieu Huston and manager Miller Huggins, as Huston frequently criticized Huggins.

Ed Barrow orchestrated a series of trades with his former club, mainly to keep Frazee afloat.

However, Weiss and Bill Essick convinced Barrow to approve the purchase of Joe DiMaggio from the Pacific Coast League.

Ed Barrow was considered a potential successor to AL president Ban Johnson in 1927, but Ed Barrow declared that he was not interested in the job.

When Huggins died in 1929, Ed Barrow chose Bob Shawkey to replace him as manager, passing over Ruth, who wanted the opportunity to become a player-manager.

Ed Barrow was named Executive of the Year by The Sporting News in 1941, the second time he won the award.

Ed Barrow remained as chairman of the board and an informal adviser.

Ed Barrow first married in 1898, but did not discuss it in any of his writings.

Ed Barrow once fought John L Sullivan in an exhibition for four rounds.

Ed Barrow was hospitalized on July 7,1953 at the United Hospital of Port Chester, New York and died on December 15, at the age of 85, due to a malignancy.

Ed Barrow's body was kept at Campbell's Funeral Home and interred in Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, Westchester County, New York.

Ed Barrow was the first executive to put numbers on player uniforms.

Ed Barrow announced the retirement of Lou Gehrig's uniform number, the first number to be retired.

Ed Barrow was the first executive to allow fans to keep foul balls that entered the stands.

Ed Barrow was the first to require the playing of "The Star-Spangled Banner", the United States' national anthem, before every game, not only on holidays.

Ed Barrow was named on the Honor Rolls of Baseball in 1946 and elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee in 1953.