Yankees Birthday of the Day: Ed Barrow
The de facto general manager helped shape so much of what we know about the Yankees.
NEW YORK - CIRCA 1926: New York Yankees General Manager Ed Barrow circa 1926.. (Photo by WM. C.
Greene/Sporting News via Getty Images via Getty Images) | Sporting News via Getty Images Most days during our Yankees Birthday series have been highlight a player who was born on that particular day. While the players are the ones we watch on a day in and day out basis, it takes more than them to make a baseball team go, and today we’ll look back on someone who had a major impact in franchise history off the field. You can make an argument that Ed Barrow is one of the single most important people in franchise history.
While in the front office, he played a key role in the Yankees finally getting over the World Series hump, and then them winning a bunch more, as they became the preeminent MLB franchise. Edward Grant “Ed” Barrow Born: May 10, 1868 (Springfield, IL) Died: December 15, 1953 (Port Chester, NY) Yankees Executive Tenure: 1920-45 Barrow was born in Springfield, IL in 1968, but his birth came as his family was moving to Nebraska in search of farmland. His family settled there for a couple years, but the Barrows would later move to Iowa, where Ed spent much of his youth.
As a teenager, Barrow began working as a mailing clerk for a Des Moines, IA newspaper, eventually working his way up to a reporter job with the Des Moines Leader. He used his higher position to create a local baseball team, which featured future Hall of Famer Fred Clarke among others. Barrow later moved to Pittsburgh and worked in some other industries before returning to baseball.
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