1879 Winter Meetings: 50-Cent Admission Price Main Issue of Sessions
A few days before the 1879 season closed, the Chicago Inter Ocean…
1880 Winter Meetings: ‘The Most Harmonious of all the League Meetings’
The Chicago White Stockings ran away with the 1880 National League…
1881 Winter Meetings: Entry, Reactions, and Innovations
Introduction
The most important events of the season were the…
1881 Winter Meetings: The American Association
Introduction: Entry, Reaction, Conflict, Change, Growth
An important…
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…
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…
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…
1895 Winter Meetings: The Magnates Expand Their Control
Following the 1895 season, and almost six weeks after the death…
1896 Winter Meetings: The Height of Factionalism
The winter2 meetings of 1896-1897 were conducted at the height…
1897 Winter Meetings: A Period of Good Feeling
The National League winter meetings of 1897-1898 were conducted…
1898 Winter Meetings: Little of Substance Accomplished
The good feelings of recent gatherings dissolved in New York…
1899 Winter Meetings: A Full Docket
Magnates attending the 1899 winter league meetings in New York…
1899-1901 American League Winter Meetings: War on the Horizon
October 11-12, 1899
Great Northern Hotel, Chicago
On October…
1900 Winter Meetings: A Threat of Competition
The main subjects considered by the magnates during the National…