Category Archive: Articles.Winter-Meetings-1-1901-1957

1917 Winter Meetings: War? What War?

Introduction and Context Now fully invested in the Great War…

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

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

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…

1927 Winter Meetings: A Little on the Drafty Side

Introduction Deep in the heart of Texas, the National Association…

1928 Winter Meetings: The Draft Mess and Glimpses into the Future

Introduction The annual baseball winter meetings of 1928 took…

1929 Winter Meetings: Let’s All Play by the Same Rules

Introduction The National Association of Professional Baseball…

1930 Winter Meetings: The Judge and the Mahatma Debate the Chain Store System

Prologue The American National Leagues each held individual…

1931 Winter Meetings: Baseball Gets a Taste of Depression

As the major-league ownership gathered in Chicago, Illinois from…

1932 Winter Meetings: Wealth of Changes Revitalizes Baseball in Poor Times

Introduction and Context America was engulfed in the Great…

1933 Winter Meetings: The Sell-Off

Introduction and Context Some of the best players in baseball…

1934 Winter Meetings: The Reds Go Under the Lights While the Braves Go to the Dogs

The 1934 baseball winter meetings could very easily have just…

1935 Winter Meetings: Inspirational Delegates Churn Cream Into Butter

Introduction and Context The National Association didn’t…

1936 Winter Meetings: Home Plate and Hurlers

The 1936 Winter Meetings were not the most exciting session.…

1937 Winter Meetings: More Business Than Baseball

Introduction and Context In 1937, both the National and the…

1939 Winter Meetings:  Tie Goes To The Commissioner

Introduction and Context The 1939 baseball winter meetings…

1950 Winter Meetings: The Happy Dagger

Introduction and Context The 1950 winter meetings were held…

1951 Winter Meetings: Open Classification

Introduction At the 1951 Winter Meetings, the major topic of…

1952 Winter Meetings: Changing Demographics and Broadcast Challenges

Described by Edward Burns of the Chicago Tribune as “one of…

1953 Winter Meetings: Pension Collision

Supreme Court Involvement On November 9, 1953, a month after…

1954 Winter Meetings: Looking West

The 1954 Winter Meetings opened on December 6 at New York’s…

1955 Winter Meetings: Majors and Minors Clash Over Money

The 1955 major-league baseball season went pretty much as predicted,…

1956 Winter Meetings: A Love-Fest

The 1956 Winter Meetings of the two major leagues were scheduled…

1957 Winter Meetings: Sunday Night Fight

The 1957 baseball Winter Meetings, held in Colorado Springs,…