1887 Winter Meetings: Harmony After a Fire Sale
The 1887 season saw the American Association and the National…
1888 Winter Meetings: The Wide World of Sports
The annual meetings of the National League and the American Association…
1889-90 Winter Meetings: The Establishment Responds
Upon the conclusion of the 1889 season, attention in baseball…
1890 Winter Meetings: Introduction and Context of the Players’ League Formation
The Players’ National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs,…
1890 Winter Meetings: Three Divides Into Two
The turbulence in the business of baseball reached its height…
1891 Winter Meetings: The Making of the Big League
The end of the Brotherhood war restored the status quo ante:…
1892 Winter Meetings: The Price of Monopoly and the Start of the Modern Game
Following years of posturing and outright conflict, first with…
1883 Winter Meetings: Boom and Entry
Introduction
The 1884 professional baseball season demonstrated…
1950 Winter Meetings: The Happy Dagger
Introduction and Context
The 1950 winter meetings were held…
1893 Winter Meetings: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bunt
If the business of baseball seemed bleak following the previous…
1894 Winter Meetings: The Empire Strikes Back
The Fall Meeting — November 16-17, 1894
The first conclave…
1951 Winter Meetings: Open Classification
Introduction
At the 1951 Winter Meetings, the major topic of…
1895 Winter Meetings: The Magnates Expand Their Control
Following the 1895 season, and almost six weeks after the death…
1952 Winter Meetings: Changing Demographics and Broadcast Challenges
Described by Edward Burns of the Chicago Tribune as “one of…
1896 Winter Meetings: The Height of Factionalism
The winter2 meetings of 1896-1897 were conducted at the height…
1953 Winter Meetings: Pension Collision
Supreme Court Involvement
On November 9, 1953, a month after…
1897 Winter Meetings: A Period of Good Feeling
The National League winter meetings of 1897-1898 were conducted…
1954 Winter Meetings: Looking West
The 1954 Winter Meetings opened on December 6 at New York’s…
1898 Winter Meetings: Little of Substance Accomplished
The good feelings of recent gatherings dissolved in New York…
1955 Winter Meetings: Majors and Minors Clash Over Money
The 1955 major-league baseball season went pretty much as predicted,…
1899 Winter Meetings: A Full Docket
Magnates attending the 1899 winter league meetings in New York…
1956 Winter Meetings: A Love-Fest
The 1956 Winter Meetings of the two major leagues were scheduled…
1899-1901 American League Winter Meetings: War on the Horizon
October 11-12, 1899
Great Northern Hotel, Chicago
On October…
1957 Winter Meetings: Sunday Night Fight
The 1957 baseball Winter Meetings, held in Colorado Springs,…