The 1915 Pennant Race You've Never Heard Of
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- Minor league baseball wasn't just about development in the old days. Learn about the Minneapolis Millers, the St. Paul Saints, and the legendary 1915 pennant race that captivated fans.
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This is great! RUclips says it was only 16 hours ago when I commented on your previous video about being glad to see the St. Paul Saints get some attention. And now there is another video with a whole lot of information about them that I hadn't known. I see I was a little confused about when the Saints' old ballpark on Lexington went away. Wikipedia says it was torn down in 1956, which was ten years before I started college, and replaced by a Midway stadium (presumably pretty near to it). I had got some of my information from my father, who had gone to the same college when the Saints were still in existence and there were athletic fields where a trench was later dug for I-94, and as usual I probably hadn't listened to him as well as I should have.
Thanks! Actually, I had planned on making this video before I saw your comment - it's interesting how everything worked out!
As someone that is enjoying a1981 co-MLB/AAA replay ( covered in the Sports Games Journal), nice to see minor league history on your channel. As for the part about the player for the Senators, besides selling and buying him back from the Millers, Maybe the Senators had either some type of an Option Agreement when purchasing the player from the Millers, or had a conditional release allowing him to go back to the Millers, but with the condition the Senators still retain rights on him. Scratching each other's back.
Yeah - I think it was probably an agreement like that. There were a bunch of agreements like that in those days, many of which weren't made public.
I always thought that the National Agreement was also the system that bound minor league clubs to the major leagues.
I would be interested in learning about some of the best players who were not in the majors because of the old system.
Nope - there was no system binding minor league clubs to major league clubs until Branch Rickey came along. He literally bought minor league clubs and started using them to funnel players from one team to the next - including among teams in the same league.
We'll have more on that bit of forgotten history later.
To follow up with what Daniel said, not only was that not originally part of the National Agreement but Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis went out of his way to attack the idea of reducing minor league teams to major league farm clubs. He did it on the eminently reasonable grounds that MLB would destroy professional baseball at the grassroots level if major league teams could simply pull minor league players from local teams at will, and he even went so far as to declare minor league farm-hands free agents if he had the least reason to do so.