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…

1918 Winter Meetings: Baseball Returns from the Great War

On November 11, 1918, minor-league owners from 40 teams, representing…

1919 Winter Meetings: The End of the Deadball Era

As baseball's powers-that-be prepared for the 1920 season, the…

1920 Winter Meetings: The Year that Rocked Baseball and Changed it Forever

Baseball fans love numbers — 755, 511, 2,632, for instance,…

1921 Winter Meetings: Baseball’s First With Judge Landis

Introduction and context It is a tale of precedent set and precedent…

1922 Winter Meetings: To Meet or Not to Meet

With an attack on a future Hall of Famer’s batting average,…

1923 Winter Meetings: The Battle of Avalon

As November rolled into December 1923, Organized Baseball found…

1923-29 Winter Meetings: The Negro Leagues Come East

1923 Eastern Colored League After the initial success in the…

1857 Winter Meetings: The First Baseball Convention

Early 1857 saw the first baseball convention, beginning a series…

1924 Winter Meetings: Big Drama in the Big Apple

Introduction and Context As the American and National Leagues…

1858 Winter Meetings: Building on the Foundation

For baseball, 1857 had been a momentous year in its development…

1925 Winter Meetings: Different Script, Same Cast

Introduction and Context Once again the American and National…

1926 Winter Meetings: Changing of the Guard

National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues The…

1927 Winter Meetings: A Little on the Drafty Side

Introduction Deep in the heart of Texas, the National Association…

1859 Winter Meetings: Growing Pains

On February 20, 1859, William Cauldwell, National Association…

1860 Winter Meetings: Convention of the National Association of Base Ball Players

Baseball had experienced tremendous growth during the 1859 playing…

1928 Winter Meetings: The Draft Mess and Glimpses into the Future

Introduction The annual baseball winter meetings of 1928 took…

1861 Winter Meetings: The National Association of Base Ball Players

When the National Association of Base Ball Players voted unanimously…

1929 Winter Meetings: Let’s All Play by the Same Rules

Introduction The National Association of Professional Baseball…