National League owners approved a change in the hit by pitch rule, and as an author would note later, "Baseball's intelligentsia had not thought this one through" [REF].
At the same meeting in New York, the NL dropped its sponsorship for a planned American Association minor league with teams in six of the eight American League locations, and waited until the end of the day to inform league organizers Charles Power and W. H. Watkins of their decision.