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,…

1900 Winter Meetings: A Threat of Competition

The main subjects considered by the magnates during the National…

1958 Winter Meetings: The Last Word in Utter Futility

Organized Baseball’s 1958 Winter Meetings were held in Washington…

1959 Winter Meetings: Winds of Change

As the 1959 Winter Meetings approached, both the nation and baseball…

1960 Winter Meetings: The Missouri Compromise

On November 8, 1960, John F. Kennedy was elected president, ushering…

1961 Winter Meetings: The Mets, the Colt .45s, and Debating the Return of the Spitball

In the winter of 1961, baseball fans were gearing up for an expansion…

1962 Winter Meetings: Addition by Subtraction

Rochester, New York, played host to the 1962 baseball winter…