Base Ball's 19th Century “Winter” Meetings: 1857-1900 (SABR Digital Library)

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.”“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 (released December 2016) and Baseball’s Business: The Winter Meetings: 1958-2016 (published in December 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. 29 members of the Society for American Baseball Research collaborated on this book. 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.” Part 1, 1857-1875 Section One Introduction 1857–1867Robert Tholkes1.1857: The First Baseball ConventionRichard Hershberger2.The 1858 NABBP ConventionRobert Tholkes3.The 1859 NABBP ConventionRobert Tholkes4.1860 Convention of the NABBPWilliam J. Ryczek5.NABBP 1861 Annual MeetingJohn Zinn6.The 1862 NABBP ConventionEric Miklich7.The 1863 NABBP ConventionEric Miklich8.The 1864 NABBP ConventionEric Miklich9.NABBP 1865 Annual MeetingJohn ZinnSection Two Introduction: 1866–1870Jim Frutchey10.The 1866 NABBP Winter ConventionJulia Hodges11.The 1867 NABBP Annual ConventionMarcus W. Dickson12.The NABBP 1868 Meeting Jeffrey Koslowski13.The 1869 Winter Meetings Mark Pestana14.The 1870 NABBP Convention, December 1869, BostonBob LeMoineSection Three Introduction: 1871–1875William J. Ryczek15.1871: The Winter of Three National AssociationsRichard Hershberger16.The 1872 Winter MeetingsMark Pestana17.The 1873 ConventionWilliam J. Ryczek18.The 1874 National Association ConventionWilliam J. Ryczek19. The 1875 National Association ConventionWilliam J. RyczekPart II, 1875-190020.The Origin of the NL: The 1875 Winter MeetingsMichael Haupert21.In the Face of Crisis: The 1876 Winter MeetingsMichael Haupert22.The 1877 NL Winter MeetingsDennis Pajot23.The 1878 Winter MeetingsDennis Pajot24.The 1879 Winter MeetingsDennis Pajot25.The 1880 Winter MeetingsDennis Pajot26.The 1881 Business MeetingsMichael R. McAvoy27.The Organizational Meetings of the American Association (1881)Michael R. McAvoy28.The 1882 Business MeetingsMichael R. McAvoy29.The 1883 Business MeetingsMichael R. McAvoy30.The 1883-84 Winter Meetings of the Union AssociationBarney Terrell31.Collapse of the Union: The 1884 Winter MeetingsMark Pestana32.Union Association 1884 Season and Winter MeetingsBarney Terrell33.The 1885 Winter MeetingsMark Pestana 34.The 1886 Winter MeetingsDennis Thiessen35.The 1887 Winter MeetingsJoel Rippel36.The 1888 Winter MeetingsRichard Bogovich37.Winter Meetings 1889-1890 (NL/AA)John Bauer38.1890: Context of the Players’ League FormationMatt Albertson39.1890 Winter Meetings John Bauer40.The 1891 Winter Meetings John Bauer, with Dennis Pajot41.The 1892 Winter MeetingsJohn Bauer42.The 1893 Winter MeetingsJohn Bauer43.The 1894 Owners MeetingsWilliam H. Johnson44.The 1895 Owners’ MeetingsWilliam H. Johnson45.The 1896–1897 NL Winter MeetingsJamie Talbot46.The 1897-1898 NL Winter MeetingsJamie Talbot and more!