Editing Ed Barrow (section)

==Baseball career==

===Early career===
Barrow partnered with [[Harry Stevens]] in 1894 to sell [[Concession stand|concessions]] at baseball games.<ref name="not ready to retire">{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=8XwqAAAAIBAJ&pg=4795,1263607&dq=ed-barrow&hl=en|title=Ed Barrow At 74 Not Ready To Retire|first=Bob|last=Considine|newspaper=The Deseret News|page=13|date=May 12, 1942|access-date=July 19, 2012}}</ref> He helped [[George Moreland]] form the [[Interstate League]], a Class-C [[minor league baseball|minor league]], in 1894.<ref name=toronto/> Barrow, with Stevens and [[Al Buckenberger]], purchased the [[Wheeling Nailers (baseball)|Wheeling Nailers]] of the Interstate League in 1896.<ref name=toronto/> Barrow served as [[manager (baseball)|field manager]] until the collapse of the league that season.<ref name=sabr/> The team continued in the [[Iron and Oil League]] for the rest of the year.<ref name=toronto/>

Barrow then bought the [[Paterson Silk Weavers]] of the Class-A [[Atlantic League (1896–1900)|Atlantic League]], managing them for the rest of the 1896 season.<ref name=sabr/> Barrow discovered [[Honus Wagner]] throwing lumps of coal at a railroad station in Pennsylvania, and signed him to his first professional contract.<ref name=sabr/><ref name=montreal/><ref name="palace guard">{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=x0FSAAAAIBAJ&pg=4305,2345298&dq=miller-huggins+ed-barrow&hl=en|title=Barrow Was Last Of Yankee Palace Guard|first=Red|last=Smith|newspaper=[[St. Petersburg Times]]|page=5-C|date=December 20, 1953|access-date=July 19, 2012}}</ref> Barrow sold Wagner to the [[Louisville Colonels]] of the [[National League (baseball)|National League]] (NL) for $2,100 the next year (${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|2100|1897}}}} in current dollar terms).<ref name=sabr/> With poor attendance, Barrow brought in professional [[Boxer (boxing)|boxer]]s as a draw: he had [[James J. Corbett]] play first base while [[John L. Sullivan]] and [[James J. Jeffries]] [[umpire (baseball)|umpired]].<ref name=showmanship>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=MrNQAAAAIBAJ&pg=7076,3807644&dq=ed-barrow&hl=en|title=Ed Barrow, Early Showman, Signed Corbett for First|page=3|newspaper=The Milwaukee Journal|date=May 11, 1938|access-date=July 19, 2012}}</ref> He also hired [[Lizzie Arlington]], the first woman in professional baseball, to pitch a few innings a game.<ref name=showmanship/>

From 1897 through 1899, Barrow served as president of the Atlantic League.<ref name=sabr>{{cite web|first=Dan |last=Levitt |url=http://sabr.org/bioproj/person/c9fdbace |title=Ed Barrow |publisher=[[Society for American Baseball Research]] |access-date=July 9, 2012}}</ref> During this time, in the winter of 1898–99, Barrow and [[Jake Wells]] established a [[movie theater]] in [[Richmond, Virginia]].<ref name=toronto/> Barrow managed Paterson again in 1899, but the league folded after the season.<ref name=sabr/>

With the money earned from the sale of the Richmond movie theater, Barrow purchased a one-quarter share of the [[Toronto Maple Leafs (International League)|Toronto Maple Leafs]] of the Class-A [[International League|Eastern League]] in 1900 from [[Arthur Irwin]],<ref name=toronto/> and served as the team's manager.<ref name=sabr/> Irwin, hired to be the manager of the [[Washington Senators (1891–1899)|Washington Senators]] of the NL, brought his most talented players with him.<ref name=toronto/> Rebuilding the Maple Leafs, 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.<ref name=toronto/> The Maple Leafs won the league championship in 1902, even though they lost many of their most talented players, including Altrock, to the upstart [[American League]] (AL).<ref name=sabr/>