SABR Digital Library: Base Ball’s 19th Century Winter Meetings, 1857-1900
The hot stove is heating up, so settle in and add this new baseball book from the SABR Digital Library to your collection:
Base Ball’s 19th Century “Winter” Meetings, 1857-1900
Edited by Jeremy K. Hodges and Bill Nowlin
Associate Editors: Len Levin, Robert Tholkes, Jim Frutchey, William J. Ryczek, Clifford Blau, and Maurice Bouchard
Foreword by John Thorn
ISBN (paperback): 978-1-9438-1691-0, $29.95
ISBN (e-book): 978-1-9438-1690-3, $9.99
384 pages, 8.5″ x 11″
Base Ball’s 19th Century “Winter” Meetings looks at the business meetings of base ball’s earliest days (not all of which were in the winter). As John Thorn writes in his Foreword, “This monumental volume traces the development of the game from its birth as an organized institution to its very near suicide at the dawn of the next century.”
Base Ball’s 19th Century “Winter” Meetings is one of three volumes — totaling more than 1,500 pages — devoted to the study of the business of baseball. Published previously were Baseball’s Business: The Winter Meetings: 1901-1957 (2016) and Baseball’s Business: The Winter Meetings: 1958-2016 (2017). This volume looks at the years from 1857 through 1900, thus completing SABR’s study of the business meetings for a period spanning 161 years.
Twenty-nine members of the Society for American Baseball Research collaborated on this book. In his foreword, MLB Official Historian John Thorn offers by way of conclusion: “SABR’s essayists in this volume (as in the two that follow chronologically, although they were published first) clearly have advanced our knowledge of the period. This will become the great sourcebook for all future efforts to describe how the game grew, flourished, fought, nearly succumbed, and survived.”
Contributors include: Matt Albertson, John Bauer, Clifford Blau, Richard Bogovich, Maurice Bouchard, Marcus W. Dickson, Jim Frutchey, Michael Haupert, Richard Hershberger, Jeremy Hodges, Julia Hodges, Bill Johnson, Jeffrey Koslowski, Bob LeMoine, Len Levin, Mike Lynch, Mike McAvoy, Eric Miklich, Bill Nowlin, Dennis Pajot, Mark Pestana, Joel Rippel, Jamie Talbot, Barney Terrell, Dennis Thiessen, Robert Tholkes, John Thorn, and John Zinn.
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- E-book: Click here to download the e-book version of Base Ball’s 19th Century “Winter” Meetings for $9.99 from the SABR Store. Available in PDF, Kindle/MOBI and EPUB formats.
- Paperback: Get the paperback edition of Base Ball’s 19th Century “Winter” Meetings from the SABR Store ($34.99 includes shipping/tax; delivery can take up to 3-4 weeks.)
About the SABR Digital Library
For more than 40 years, SABR and its members have led the way in publishing the best baseball historical and statistical research. Our publications program is shifting to take advantage of new methods of publishing. Not only will we continue to publish new books like Can He Play? A Look At Baseball Scouts and Their Profession (released in December 2011); Detroit Tigers 1984: What A Start! What A Finish! (December 2012); Sweet ’60: The 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates (April 2013); Inventing Baseball: The 100 Greatest Games of the 19th Century (July 2013); Scandal on the South Side: The 1919 Chicago White Sox (June 2015); The Team That Time Won’t Forget: The 1951 New York Giants (December 2015); Nuclear Powered Baseball/The Simpsons (February 2016), Au jeu/Play Ball: The 50 Greatest Games in the History of the Montreal Expos (April 2016); Cuban Baseball Legends (July 2016); Baseball’s Business: The Winter Meetings: 1901-1957 (December 2016); Dome Sweet Dome: History and Highlights from 35 Years of the Houston Astrodome (February 2017); No-Hitters (May 2017); Puerto Rico and Baseball (June 2017); Bittersweet Goodbye: The Black Barons, the Grays, and the 1948 Negro League World Series (July 2017), The Whiz Kids Take the Pennant (January 2018), and Major League Baseball A Mile High: The First Quarter Century of the Colorado Rockies (May 2018), which showcase the best efforts of SABR’s members, chapters and committees, but new technology makes it possible for us to bring out-of-print titles like Run, Rabbit, Run: The Hilarious and Mostly True Tales of Rabbit Maranville (February 2012), Great Hitting Pitchers (March 2012), Nineteenth Century Stars (August 2012); Batting (January 2013); The Fenway Project (September 2013); ’75: The Red Sox Team That Saved Baseball (April 2015), and The 1967 Impossible Dream Red Sox: Pandemonium on the Field (June 2017) back again.
Books will be available in digital formats as well as paperbacks produced by “print on demand” (POD).
SABR members will get discounted rates for all Digital Library publications, including many for free. If you’re not a member, click here to join SABR.
Stay tuned throughout the year for new (and old!) titles that we’ll be adding to the SABR Digital Library. To learn more about SABR Publications, contact Publications Editor Cecilia Tan at ctan@sabr.org.
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Originally published: December 5, 2018. Last Updated: December 3, 2021.