Award-Winning Writer

Daniel R. Levitt is the author of Ed Barrow: The Bulldog who Built the Yankees’ First Dynasty. Joe Sheehan of the Baseball Prospectus called his previous book (co-authored with Mark Armour), Paths to Glory, How Great Baseball Teams Got That Way, “The best baseball book I have read this spring…It’s simply an excellent book, one that can be both enjoyed and studied."     more »

Ed Barrow

Ed Barrow: The Bulldog Who Built the Yankees' First Dynasty

Dan Levitt's biography of New York Yankee general manager Ed Barrow was originally released by the University of Nebraska Press in the spring of 2008. The paperback edition was released this spring Before the feuding owners turned to Ed Barrow as general manager in 1920, the Yankees had never won … [Read More...]

Paths to Glory

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An essential experience of being a baseball fan is the hopeful anticipation of seeing the hometown nine make a run at winning the World Series. In Paths To Glory, Mark L. Armour and Daniel R. Levitt review how teams build themselves up into winners. What makes a winning team like the 1900 Brooklyn … [Read More...]

Other Baseball Essays and Articles

Other Baseball Essays and Articles

Historical "History versus Harry Frazee: Re-revising the Story."  Baseball Research Journal. (SABR, 2008) [Cover story] (with Mark L. Armour and Matthew Levitt) "Ed Barrow, the Federal League, and the Union League."  The National Pastime. Society for American Baseball Research, 2008, … [Read More...]