SABR Digital Library: Baseball’s Business: The Winter Meetings: 1958-2016

December 7, 2017/by wpadmin

Baseball’s Business: The Winter Meetings: 1958-2016 (Volume Two)

Baseball’s Business: The Winter Meetings: 1958-2016 (Volume Two)
Edited by Steve Weingarden and Bill Nowlin
Associate editors: Marshall Adesman and Len Levin
Publication Date: December 7, 2017
ISBN (paperback): 978-1-943816-63-7, $44.95
ISBN (e-book) 978-1-943816-62-0, $9.99
8.5″ x 11″, 468 pages

The Winter Meetings have been Organized Baseball’s annual offseason ritual since the early days of the game. This is SABR’s second volume on the history of the winter meetings, covering the years 1958 through 2016, and including a special section on the Negro Leagues winter meetings.

The latter years of the 20th century included many monumental changes in the business of baseball. This volume covers the time period of multiple rounds of expansion, the advent of free agency, several work stoppages, collusion among the owners, and the eventual elimination of the American and National League presidents’ offices and consolidation of the two leagues as a single business entity.

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Below: Find essays from Baseball’s Business: The Winter Meetings: 1958-2016

Essays

1933-1962: The Business Meetings of Negro League Baseball

1958 Winter Meetings: The Last Word in Utter Futility

1959 Winter Meetings: Winds of Change

1960 Winter Meetings: The Missouri Compromise

1961 Winter Meetings: The Mets, the Colt .45s, and Debating the Return of the Spitball

1962 Winter Meetings: Addition by Subtraction

1963 Winter Meetings: No Little League Bats Allowed

1964 Winter Meetings: Commissioner’s Powers, Free-Agent Draft & All-Star Voting

1965 Winter Meetings: Exit the Sportswriter and Enter the General

1966 Winter Meetings: Tomorrow Never Knows

1967 Winter Meetings: Expansion, Inevitably

1968 Winter Meetings: Down Goes Eckert

1969 Winter Meetings: Reorganization Talk

1970 Winter Meetings: Kuhn Thwarted

1971 Winter Meetings: The Swap Meet

1972 Winter Meetings: Calm Between Storms

1973 Winter Meetings: Managerial Confusion, Ron Santo Reacts, & The Padres’ Dilemma

1974 Winter Meetings: Détente Before The Storm

1975 Winter Meetings: The Threat of Free Agency and the Return of the Master Showman

1976 Winter Meetings: Changing Demographics and Broadcast Challenges

1977 Winter Meetings: So Much Promise, But Wait Till Next Year

1978 Winter Meetings: Figuring Out Free Agency

1979 Winter Meetings: First Chance at a Post-Free Agency CBA

1980 Winter Meetings: Future Hall of Famers in the Spotlight

1981 Winter Meetings: The Post-Strike Intrigue of Kuhn, Smith, and Templeton

1982 Winter Meetings: Dispirited and Argumentative

1983 Winter Meetings: The End of the Bowie Kuhn Era

1984 Winter Meetings: Superstationary

1985 Winter Meetings: Free-Agent Freezeout: Collusion I

1986 Winter Meetings: A Rigged Market: Collusion II

1987 Winter Meetings: Changing Times

1988 Winter Meetings: Rangers Make Huge Splash

1989 Winter Meetings: Minor Moves Make Major Impacts

1990 Winter Meetings: They Almost Didn’t Happen

1991 Winter Meetings: Vincent Expresses Concern for Small Market Clubs; Minors Choose a New Leader

1992 Winter Meetings: The Circus Comes To Town

1993 Winter Meetings: A Cooling Hot Stove and Boiling Tempers

1994 Winter Meetings: Year-Round Labor Negotiations Resolve Strike

1995 Winter Meetings: Interleague Play: Innovation or Abomination?

1996 Winter Meetings: The Year That Brought Labor Peace

1997 Winter Meetings: Minor-League Changes, Major-League Impact

1998 Winter Meetings: Tempers Flare, Contracts Explode

1999 Winter Meetings: All About Junior

2000 Winter Meetings: Show Me the Money

2001 Winter Meetings: All Quiet on the Charles

2002 Winter Meetings: Return to Nashville

2003 Winter Meetings: Back in the Bayou

2004 Winter Meetings: It’s All a Gamble

2005 Winter Meetings: A Lot of Action in Dallas

2006 Winter Meetings: A Barry Active Meeting

2007 Winter Meetings: The Promise and Curse of Technology

2008 Winter Meetings: Clouds Over the Game

2009 Winter Meetings: Changes Here, There, Everywhere: A Blockbuster, An Oops, A Succession, And Magic Tricks By Owners

2010 Winter Meetings: Baseball’s Movers and Shakers Convene in the Sunshine State

2011 Winter Meetings: Breaking the Budget in the Offseason

2012 Winter Meetings: Laying Groundwork

2013 Winter Meetings: It All Happened the Week Before

2014 Winter Meetings: A New Dawn Rising

2015 Winter Meetings: The Music City Plays Gracious Host for the Seventh Time

2016 Winter Meetings: Has A New Diamond Age Begun for Baseball?

Contributors: Abigail Miskowiec, Andy Bokser, Bob Whelan, Chad Hagan, Charles H. Martin, Chip Greene, Chris Jones, Christopher Matthews, Clayton Trutor, Dan Levitt, Darren Munk, David M. Kritzler and Alan P. Henry, Donald G. Frank, Duke Goldman, Gregory H. Wolf, Hawkins DuBois, Jason C. Long, Jason Myers, Jeff Barto, Jerry Swenson, Jessica Frank, John Bauer, John Burbridge, Kent Henderson, Luca Rossi, Mark Armour, Mark S. Sternman, Michael Huber, Mike Lynch, Paul D. Brown, Paul Hensler, Robert K. Whelan, Rodger A. Payne, Ross E. Davies, Steve Cardullo, Steve Weingarden, Steve West, Tim Rask, Tom Cuggino, Wayne G. McDonnell, Jr.

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