1906 Winter Meetings: Gradual Détente, Growing Pains

Introduction and Context By the time the National and American…

1907 Winter Meetings: The New Cooperation: The Manifest Desire to Elevate the Game

The major-league portion of the 1907 winter meetings were held…

1909 Winter Meetings: If It Takes All Winter

Moving into 1909, change was in the wind. All ballparks had been,…

1910 Winter Meetings: Ho-Hum Affairs

Introduction It was decided both major leagues would hold their…

1911 Winter Meetings: Scandal? What Scandal?

The 1911 winter meetings played out in the press as well as in…

1912 Winter Meetings: Discussing Interleague Play and the Slow Pace of the Game

Among the anticipated business of the National and American Leagues…

1913 Winter Meetings: Preparing for the Fights Ahead

Introduction The offseason after the 1913 championship season…

1914 Winter Meetings: Wars at Home and Abroad

Introduction In the months following the first year of play…

1915 Winter Meetings: Peace Time for the National Pastime

The 1915 season had been a tough one for Organized Baseball,…

1916 Winter Meetings: The Minors and Players are Restless

Major-league attendance surged nicely in 1916 without Federal…

1917 Winter Meetings: War? What War?

Introduction and Context Now fully invested in the Great War…

1918 Winter Meetings: Baseball Returns from the Great War

On November 11, 1918, minor-league owners from 40 teams, representing…

1919 Winter Meetings: The End of the Deadball Era

As baseball's powers-that-be prepared for the 1920 season, the…

1920 Winter Meetings: The Year that Rocked Baseball and Changed it Forever

Baseball fans love numbers — 755, 511, 2,632, for instance,…

1921 Winter Meetings: Baseball’s First With Judge Landis

Introduction and context It is a tale of precedent set and precedent…

1922 Winter Meetings: To Meet or Not to Meet

With an attack on a future Hall of Famer’s batting average,…

1923 Winter Meetings: The Battle of Avalon

As November rolled into December 1923, Organized Baseball found…

1923-29 Winter Meetings: The Negro Leagues Come East

1923 Eastern Colored League After the initial success in the…

1857 Winter Meetings: The First Baseball Convention

Early 1857 saw the first baseball convention, beginning a series…

1924 Winter Meetings: Big Drama in the Big Apple

Introduction and Context As the American and National Leagues…

1858 Winter Meetings: Building on the Foundation

For baseball, 1857 had been a momentous year in its development…

1925 Winter Meetings: Different Script, Same Cast

Introduction and Context Once again the American and National…

1926 Winter Meetings: Changing of the Guard

National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues The…

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