Editing Ed Barrow (section)

===Return to baseball===
Barrow returned to baseball in 1910, managing Montreal.<ref name=sabr/> The Eastern League hired Barrow as its president the next year, giving him an annual salary of $7,500 (${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|7500|1911}}}} in current dollar terms).<ref>{{Cite news |date=1910-12-14 |title=Barrow Will Get $7,500 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-baltimore-sun-barrow-will-get-7500/168712399/ |access-date=2025-03-24 |work=[[The Baltimore Sun|The Sun]] |page=12 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=December 21, 1910 |title=Ed Barrow: New President of the Eastern League |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-atlanta-constitution-ed-barrow-new/168712435/ |access-date=2025-03-24 |newspaper=[[The Atlanta Constitution]] |pages=12 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> He served in this role from 1911 through 1917, and engineered the name change to "International League" before the 1912 season.<ref name=sabr/> As league president, he contended with the creation of the [[Federal League]] in 1914, which competed as a major league, and established franchises in International League cities, including [[Newark, New Jersey]], [[Buffalo, New York]], and [[Baltimore]], [[Maryland]].<ref name=toronto/> He attempted to gain major league status for the league in 1914, but was unsuccessful.<ref name=sabr/> When the Federal League collapsed, Barrow was the only league president to forbid the outlaw players from playing in his league.<ref name=toronto/>

After the 1917 season, Barrow attempted to organize the "Union League", to compete against the AL and NL as a third major league, by merging four International League clubs with four teams from the American Association.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=mDBYAAAAIBAJ&pg=956,5772052&dq=ed-barrow+union-league&hl=en|title=You'll See What Amounts To Major League Ball In Toledo Next Year: Toledo's Entrance Into the Union League, Which Is To Be a Major Circuit, Will Be A Great Thing For the Game in This City; Six Towns Are Already Cinched|first=Dick|last=Meade|page=14|newspaper=The Toledo News-Bee|date=October 24, 1917|access-date=July 19, 2012}}</ref> Several International League owners opposed Barrow's policies, including his attempt to form the Union League, and felt he was too close personally to Ban Johnson.<ref name=cut/> When the league's owners voted to cut his pay to $2,500 after the 1917 season (${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|2500|1917}}}} in current dollar terms), Barrow resigned.<ref name=sabr/><ref name=cut>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=lpoFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5502,1775394&dq=ed-barrow+union-league&hl=en|title=When International Cut E. Barrow's Salary|newspaper=The Toronto World|page=8|date=January 2, 1918|access-date=July 19, 2012}}</ref>