November 11, 1920 marks the first official celebration of Armistice Day, what we now celebrate as Veterans Day in the United States. In baseball, peace is about to be reached between the sixteen major league clubs. The capitulation of the five hold-out American League clubs to the eleven clubs supporting the Lasker plan came about due to a failed attempt install minor league leadership supporting the AL teams:

To put it most generously, there has been a complete backdown and actual surrender to the big eleven by Mr. Johnson and his “loyal” five. This backdown came when the Johnsonian influence failed to realign the forces of minor league baseball behind the “loyal” five. A coup was planned to have Secretary John H. Farrell ditched as secretary of the National Association. When this coup failed and the minor league announced a policy of strict neutrality in the fight among the major league club owners, the hope of the “loyal” five went a-glimmering.

New York Tribune

The coup story makes Ban Johnson’s address to the minors two days ago seem rather disingenuous.

The story goes on to detail leaked information of the deal, including a majority vote to settle interleauge issues and acceptance of Kenesaw Mountain Landis as head of the board of control. The five AL teams will get to nominate the second major league representative to the board. Six minor league representatives head to Chicago to await the results of the conference among the sixteen major league owners, then name the minor league representative to the board.