
1882 Winter Meetings: Reconciliation and Cooperation
Introduction
By contemporary accounts, the 1883 championship…

1883 Winter Meetings: Boom and Entry
Introduction
The 1884 professional baseball season demonstrated…

1883-84 Winter Meetings: The Union Association
The work of establishing the Union Association of Base Ball Clubs…

1884 Winter Meetings: Collapse of the Union, Return of the Prodigals
The Annus Mirabilis that was 1884 left a massive fallout for…

1884 Winter Meetings: Peeling The Onion
The Altoona Mountain City played their first game of the 1884…

1885 Winter Meetings: A Temporary Stability
After the tumultuous and expansive year of 1884 and the period…

1886 Winter Meetings: Radical Changes to the Playing Rules
The National League and the American Association entered their…

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…

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…