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…