1942 Winter Meetings: Green Light Matters of Manpower and the Military

Introduction In January 1942, one month after the attack on…

1943 Winter Meetings: War on the Home Front

Introduction and Context Baseball’s 1943 winter meetings…

1874 Winter Meetings: Nine Men Are Quite Enough

Someone was missing from the 1874 National Association convention,…

1944 Winter Meetings: A New Era Without Landis

Introduction and Context As World War II seemed to be winding…

1945 Winter Meetings: Resuming Peacetime Baseball

For the first time since 1941, major-league baseball was able…

1875 Winter Meetings: The Force Case

When the delegates to the annual convention of the National Association…

1946 Winter Meetings: Tranquility and Turbulence

Punctuated by Enos Slaughter’s mad dash around the bases…

1875 Winter Meetings: The Origin of the National League

We the undersigned, Professional Base Ball Clubs of the United…

1947 Winter Meetings: Latin America, Leo the Lip, and High School Hijinks

The annual Winter Meetings of the National Association ventured…

1876 Winter Meetings: In the Face of Crisis

The first season of the National League ended on a bittersweet…

1877 Winter Meetings: Scandals, New Rules, and Franchise Changes

The 1877 season did not turn out well financially for the National…

1878 Winter Meetings: The National League Is Back to Eight Clubs

The 1878 baseball season was not financially successful for the…

1949 Winter Meetings: Bonuses, Bargains, and Broadcasts

Minor-League Winter Meeting The 1949 Winter Meetings saw several…

1879 Winter Meetings: 50-Cent Admission Price Main Issue of Sessions

A few days before the 1879 season closed, the Chicago Inter Ocean…

1880 Winter Meetings: ‘The Most Harmonious of all the League Meetings’

The Chicago White Stockings ran away with the 1880 National League…

1881 Winter Meetings: Entry, Reactions, and Innovations

Introduction The most important events of the season were the…

1881 Winter Meetings: The American Association

Introduction: Entry, Reaction, Conflict, Change, Growth An important…

1882 Winter Meetings: Reconciliation and Cooperation

Introduction By contemporary accounts, the 1883 championship…

1883-84 Winter Meetings: The Union Association

The work of establishing the Union Association of Base Ball Clubs…

1884 Winter Meetings: Collapse of the Union, Return of the Prodigals

The Annus Mirabilis that was 1884 left a massive fallout for…

1884 Winter Meetings: Peeling The Onion

The Altoona Mountain City played their first game of the 1884…

1885 Winter Meetings: A Temporary Stability

After the tumultuous and expansive year of 1884 and the period…

1886 Winter Meetings: Radical Changes to the Playing Rules

The National League and the American Association entered their…