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…
1930 Winter Meetings: The Judge and the Mahatma Debate the Chain Store System
Prologue
The American National Leagues each held individual…
1862 Winter Meetings: Static Rules and the Great Conflict
“The disturbed state of the country and the fact that the baseball…
1931 Winter Meetings: Baseball Gets a Taste of Depression
As the major-league ownership gathered in Chicago, Illinois from…
1863 Winter Meetings: The Game Remains the Same
As the Civil War continued to impact America, the population…
1932 Winter Meetings: Wealth of Changes Revitalizes Baseball in Poor Times
Introduction and Context
America was engulfed in the Great…
1864 Winter Meetings: To Fly or Not and Other Monumental Changes
Dr. Joseph Jones of the Excelsiors club, former president of…