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1933 Winter Meetings: The Sell-Off
Introduction and Context
Some of the best players in baseball…
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1865 Winter Meetings: National Association of Base Ball Players
In choosing December as the best month of the year in which to…
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1934 Winter Meetings: The Reds Go Under the Lights While the Braves Go to the Dogs
The 1934 baseball winter meetings could very easily have just…
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1866 Winter Meetings: National Association of Base Ball Players Annual Convention
The Civil War left the United States of America in shambles.…
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1935 Winter Meetings: Inspirational Delegates Churn Cream Into Butter
Introduction and Context
The National Association didn’t…
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1936 Winter Meetings: Home Plate and Hurlers
The 1936 Winter Meetings were not the most exciting session.…
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1867 Winter Meetings: National Association of Base Ball Players Annual Convention
As the annual convention of the National Association of Base…
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1937 Winter Meetings: More Business Than Baseball
Introduction and Context
In 1937, both the National and the…
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1868 Winter Meetings: ‘The Most Brilliant Season’ or ‘A Lamentable Failure’
As the 1867 baseball season drew to a close, the sport was meeting…
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1938 Winter Meetings: Out of the Hat
Introduction and Context
In 1938, the major leagues returned…
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1869 Winter Meetings: Pivot To Professionalism
The baseball season of 1868 ended with the National Association…
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1939 Winter Meetings: Tie Goes To The Commissioner
Introduction and Context
The 1939 baseball winter meetings…
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1870 Winter Meetings: The Calm Before the Storm
As 1869 was coming to a close, baseball and the nation at large…
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1940 Winter Meetings: Judge Landis’ Final Reign
The 1940 major-league winter meetings, held at Chicago's Palmer…
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1871 Winter Meetings: The Winter of Three National Associations
The National Association of Base Ball Players held its 14th annual…
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1872 Winter Meetings: Inconsistencies and Ineligibles
The last official game of the 1871 National Association season…
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1941 Winter Meetings: War and Uncertainty
Minor-League Winter Meeting
The prospect of war cast a long…
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1873 Winter Meetings: Avoiding the Issues
The 1872 National Association season had been disappointing,…
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1942 Winter Meetings: Green Light Matters of Manpower and the Military
Introduction
In January 1942, one month after the attack on…
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1943 Winter Meetings: War on the Home Front
Introduction and Context
Baseball’s 1943 winter meetings…
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1874 Winter Meetings: Nine Men Are Quite Enough
Someone was missing from the 1874 National Association convention,…
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1944 Winter Meetings: A New Era Without Landis
Introduction and Context
As World War II seemed to be winding…
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1945 Winter Meetings: Resuming Peacetime Baseball
For the first time since 1941, major-league baseball was able…
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1875 Winter Meetings: The Force Case
When the delegates to the annual convention of the National Association…