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Minor league   /mˈaɪnər lig/   Listen
Minor league

noun
1.
A league of teams that do not belong to a major league (especially baseball).  Synonyms: bush league, minors.






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"Minor league" Quotes from Famous Books



... trio—Red Gilbat, left fielder; Reddy Clammer, right fielder, and Reddie Ray, center fielder, composing the most remarkable outfield ever developed in minor league baseball. It was Delaney's pride, as it was ...
— The Redheaded Outfield and Other Baseball Stories • Zane Grey

... Base Ball that more inequitable treatment has arisen by fifty per cent in the minor leagues than has had its origin in the major leagues. The reason for this existed almost wholly in the inability of Base Ball as a whole to bring the minor league owners to a realization of the injury that they might be doing and to extend such punishment and insist upon such regulation as were necessary ...
— Spalding's Official Baseball Guide - 1913 • John B. Foster

... Burdock, and Force are in the service of minor League Clubs, while the retired players include Start ...
— Spalding's Baseball Guide and Official League Book for 1889 • edited by Henry Chadwick



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