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Hired by the Cleveland Indians in 1903, he served that club as traveling secretary (1903-08), vice president and general manager (1908-16, 1918-22), and president (1922-27), often acting as a mediator between AL president Ban Johnson and Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis . When AL owners in 1927 removed Johnson, the league's founder, Barnard was chosen to replace him after agreeing to sell the Indians. He was re-elected to a 3-year term on December 9, 1930, but died suddenly prior to an examination at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota a few months afterward; Johnson died just hours later. REFERENCES
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