Daniel Augustine Barry (August 29, 1886 - February 9, 1947) was an American professional baseball

umpire An umpire is an official in a variety of sports and competition, responsible for enforcing the rules of the sport, including sportsmanship decisions such as ejection. The term derives from the Old French nonper, ''non'', "not" and ''per'', ...

. Barry umpired 132

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games in , 49 of them as the

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umpire.

Early life and career

Born in Boston, Barry played high school baseball followed by semipro and minor league baseball. After an arm injury, he began a newspaper career with the sports department at

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. Having spent fifteen years as a college baseball umpire, particularly for Harvard and Holy Cross games, Barry was one of few umpires who would be promoted to MLB umpiring without ever officiating in the minor leagues.

MLB career

Barry was promoted to the umpiring staff of the American League for the 1928 season, the first Boston man to hold that distinction. Umpire George Moriarity took a leave of absence to manage the Detroit Tigers that year and he came back to umpiring for 1929. Barry returned to newspaper work. In his lone major league season, Barry recorded only two ejections. His first was

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, one of six times that the Hall of Famer was ejected in his career. Later in the season, Barry handed

Lena Blackburne Russell Aubrey "Lena" Blackburne (October 23, 1886 – February 29, 1968) was an American baseball infielder, manager, coach, and scout in Major League Baseball (MLB). He is best known for the creation of his baseball rubbing mud, used to remove ...

his only ejection as a manager in 232 career games.

Later life

Barry maintained an interest in umpiring, but shifted his focus to youth baseball. He worked in several

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after his stint in the major leagues.

References

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