The Show Girl and the Shortstop: The Strange Saga of Violet Popovich and Her Shooting of Cub Billy Jurges
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The Great American Pastime (1956): Hollywood, Little League, and the Post-World War II Consensus
Advertising billed The Great American Pastime as a comedy…
Baseball Player Won-Lost Records: The Ultimate Baseball Statistic
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Appendix 1: Billy Hamilton’s 1894 Runs Scored
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1901 Winter Meetings: Firsts, Foibles, and Failures
Introduction and Context
Professional baseball was mired in…
1902 Winter Meetings: A Peace Accord
Preemptive Measures by the Senior League
Before the 1902 season…
1903 Winter Meetings: Married Life Begins For American, National Leagues
It could be compared, in a way, to a romance novel — first…
1904 Winter Meetings: Power Play
Introduction
At the 1904 winter meetings, power was the common…
1905 Winter Meetings: Controversy Over League Presidents Take Center Stage
Introduction
Baseball had just completed perhaps its most profitable…
1906 Winter Meetings: Gradual Détente, Growing Pains
Introduction and Context
By the time the National and American…
1907 Winter Meetings: The New Cooperation: The Manifest Desire to Elevate the Game
The major-league portion of the 1907 winter meetings were held…
1908 Winter Meetings: Major Issues in the Minors, Bribery Charges, and World Series Ticket Scandal
Introduction
After what some call the greatest baseball season…
1909 Winter Meetings: If It Takes All Winter
Moving into 1909, change was in the wind. All ballparks had been,…
1910 Winter Meetings: Ho-Hum Affairs
Introduction
It was decided both major leagues would hold their…
1911 Winter Meetings: Scandal? What Scandal?
The 1911 winter meetings played out in the press as well as in…
1912 Winter Meetings: Discussing Interleague Play and the Slow Pace of the Game
Among the anticipated business of the National and American Leagues…
1913 Winter Meetings: Preparing for the Fights Ahead
Introduction
The offseason after the 1913 championship season…
1914 Winter Meetings: Wars at Home and Abroad
Introduction
In the months following the first year of play…
1915 Winter Meetings: Peace Time for the National Pastime
The 1915 season had been a tough one for Organized Baseball,…
1916 Winter Meetings: The Minors and Players are Restless
Major-league attendance surged nicely in 1916 without Federal…
1917 Winter Meetings: War? What War?
Introduction and Context
Now fully invested in the Great War…