SABR Digital Library: Base Ball’s 19th Century Winter Meetings, 1857-1900
Base Ball’s 19th Century “Winter” Meetings, 1857-1900
Edited by Jeremy K. Hodges and Bill Nowlin
Associate Editors: Len Levin, Robert Tholkes, Jim Frutchey, William J. Ryczek, Clifford Blau, and Maurice Bouchard
Foreword by John Thorn
Publication Date: December 6, 2018
ISBN (paperback): 978-1-9438-1691-0, $29.95
ISBN (e-book): 978-1-9438-1690-3, $9.99
8.5″ x 11″, 384 pages
Base Ball’s 19th Century “Winter” Meetings looks at the business meetings of base ball’s earliest days (not all of which were in the winter). As John Thorn writes in his Foreword, “This monumental volume traces the development of the game from its birth as an organized institution to its very near suicide at the dawn of the next century.”
Base Ball’s 19th Century “Winter” Meetings is one of three volumes — totaling more than 1,500 pages — devoted to the study of the business of baseball. Published previously were Baseball’s Business: The Winter Meetings: 1901-1957 (2016) and Baseball’s Business: The Winter Meetings: 1958-2016 (2017). This volume looks at the years from 1857 through 1900, thus completing SABR’s study of the business meetings for a period spanning 161 years.
Twenty-nine members of the Society for American Baseball Research collaborated on this book. In his foreword, MLB Official Historian John Thorn offers by way of conclusion: “SABR’s essayists in this volume (as in the two that follow chronologically, although they were published first) clearly have advanced our knowledge of the period. This will become the great sourcebook for all future efforts to describe how the game grew, flourished, fought, nearly succumbed, and survived.”
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Essays
Contributors: Matt Albertson, John Bauer, Clifford Blau, Richard Bogovich, Maurice Bouchard, Marcus W. Dickson, Jim Frutchey, Michael Haupert, Richard Hershberger, Jeremy Hodges, Julia Hodges, Bill Johnson, Jeffrey Koslowski, Bob LeMoine, Len Levin, Mike Lynch, Mike McAvoy, Eric Miklich, Bill Nowlin, Dennis Pajot, Mark Pestana, Joel Rippel, Jamie Talbot, Barney Terrell, Dennis Thiessen, Robert Tholkes, John Thorn, and John Zinn.