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- Minor_League_Baseball abstract "Minor League Baseball is a hierarchy of professional baseball leagues in the Americas that compete at levels below Major League Baseball (MLB) and provide opportunities for player development and a way to prepare for the major leagues. All of the minor leagues are operated as independent businesses. Most are members of the umbrella organization known as Minor League Baseball (MiLB), which operates under the Commissioner of Baseball within the scope of organized baseball. Several leagues, known as independent baseball leagues, do not have any official links to Major League Baseball.Except for the Mexican League, teams in the organized minor leagues are generally independently owned and operated but are directly affiliated with one major league team through a standardized Player Development Contract (PDC). These leagues also go by the nicknames the "farm system," "farm club," or "farm team(s)" because of a joke passed around by major league players in the 1930s when St. Louis Cardinals' general manager Branch Rickey formalized the system, and teams in small towns were "growing players down on the farm like corn."Major League Baseball and Minor League Baseball teams may enter into a PDC for a two- or four-year term. At the expiration of a PDC term, teams may renew their affiliation, or sign new PDCs with different clubs, though many relationships are renewed and endure for extended time periods. For example, the Omaha Storm Chasers (formerly the Omaha Royals) have been the Triple-A affiliate of the Kansas City Royals since the Royals joined the American League in 1969, but the Columbus Clippers changed affiliations, after being associated with the New York Yankees from 1979, to the Washington Nationals in 2007 and have been affiliated with the Cleveland Indians since 2009. A few minor league teams are directly owned by their major league parent club, such as the Springfield Cardinals, owned by the St. Louis Cardinals, and all of the Atlanta Braves' affiliates except the Carolina Mudcats. Minor League teams that are owned directly by the major league Club do not have PDCs with each other and are not part of the reaffiliation shuffles that occur every other year.Today, 19 affiliated minor baseball leagues operate with 246 member clubs in large, medium, and small towns, as well as the suburbs of major cities, across the United States, Canada, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, and Venezuela. Several more independent leagues operate in the United States and Canada.".
- Minor_League_Baseball foundingYear "1868".
- Minor_League_Baseball participant "240".
- Minor_League_Baseball participant "various".
- Minor_League_Baseball thumbnail Minor_league.jpg?width=300.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageExternalLink milb.com.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageExternalLink 1903NatAgree.htm.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageExternalLink www.minorleaguebaseball.com.
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- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Allentown,_Pennsylvania.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Aluminium.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Aluminum.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink American_Association_(19th_century).
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink American_Association_(20th_century).
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink American_Association_of_Independent_Professional_Baseball.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink American_League.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Americas.
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- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Appalachian_League.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Arizona.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Arizona_Fall_League.
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- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Atlanta_Braves.
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- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Auburn,_New_York.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Australian_Baseball_League.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Baltimore_Orioles_(minor_league).
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Ban_Johnson.
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- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Baseball_bat.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Bluefield_Blue_Jays.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Bluefield_Orioles.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Bob_Rich,_Jr..
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Bobby_Bragan.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Branch_Rickey.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Buddy_Ryan_(baseball).
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Buffalo_Bisons.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Buzz_Arlett.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink CBS_Sports_Network.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink California_League.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Canada.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Canadian_American_Association_of_Professional_Baseball.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Carolina_League.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Carolina_League_(1936–38).
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Carolina_Mudcats.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Category:1901_establishments_in_the_United_States.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Category:History_of_baseball_in_the_United_States.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Category:Minor_league_baseball.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Category:Organizations_established_in_1901.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Central_League_(baseball).
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Chicago.
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- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Collegiate_summer_baseball.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Colombian_Professional_Baseball_League.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Colorado_Rockies.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Colorado_Springs,_Colorado.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Columbus_Clippers.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Commissioner_of_Baseball.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Competition_law.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Connecticut_League.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Cotton_States_League.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Curt_Schilling.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Day-night_doubleheader.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Dayton_Dragons.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Denver.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Detroit_Tigers.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Disabled_list.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Dixie_Association.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Dominican_Professional_Baseball_League.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Dominican_Republic.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Dominican_Summer_League.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Dominican_Winter_Baseball_League.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Doubleheader_(baseball).
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Earl_Rapp.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Eastern_League_(U.S._baseball).
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Eastern_League_(baseball).
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Farm_system.
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- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Federal_Baseball_Club_v._National_League.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Federal_League.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink File:Minor_League_Baseball_Front_Office.jpg.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Florida.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Florida_East_Coast_League.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Florida_State_League.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Fort_Myers_Miracle.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Frank_Shellenback.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Free_agent.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Frontier_League.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink General_Educational_Development.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink George_Trautman.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Georgia-Florida_League.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Great_American_Ball_Park.
- Minor_League_Baseball wikiPageWikiLink Great_Depression.