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Cargando... Ed Barrow: The Bulldog Who Built the Yankees' First Dynastypor Daniel R. Levitt
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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 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. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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While this is primarily a biography, the book features the author's enormous research effort about the way baseball's conditions and working rules changed over the course of Barrow's career. This is important because Barrow was constantly adjusting his work to accommodate those conditions and rules. It's valuable because I've not seen a similar effort by any author.
I do wish Levitt had included footnotes in some way, shape, or form. But there's a fine bibliography.
Delightful book. Well worth any serious baseball fan's time.
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Having praised the book, I need to rant about the ebook. The ebook version has been butchered, as the publisher (Nebraska) has omitted all but one of the book's photographs, and roughly half of the statistical (mainly financial) tables that Levitt compiled in the process of writing the book. The surviving tables are unlabelled, and isolated in an appendix, which makes it painfully difficult to refer to them, even though they're mentioned in the text. A better publisher would have included all the tables, and built hyperlinks from the references to the tables, and from the tables back to the text.
Treating ebook purchasers as second class citizens is simply irresponsible. In the long run, it's a losing strategy.
The missing pictures and tables are all marked with the comment "Copyrighted image removed by Publisher", a note apparently intended to give the impression that the copyright is at issue. That's silly, and it's insulting.
This review has also been published on a dabbler's journal. (