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,…