This rule providing for a blackout of televised baseball 30 minutes before the start of a major or minor league game in any area comes from the game's top rulers.

It is an irritable rule that does baseball more harm than good, especially at the minor league level.

Later, Shea owned and operated the Long Island Indians, a minor league professional football team.

The Assuwa league was a confederation of states in western Anatolia concluding a wide-ranging array of minor Anti-Hittite powers across the region.

Doubleday Field is a minor league baseball stadium named for Abner Doubleday, located in Cooperstown, New York, near the Baseball Hall of Fame.

The Auburn Doubledays are a minor league baseball team based in Doubleday's hometown of Auburn, New York.

His minor league playing career lasted through 1895.

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The first serious attempt to land an expansion team for the Phoenix area was mounted by Elyse Doherty and Martin Stone, owner of the Phoenix Firebirds, the city's triple-A minor league baseball team and the top affiliate of the San Francisco Giants.

* In Cheers, the slow-witted bartender known as " Coach " in one episode claimed to hold a minor league record for being hit by pitches.

Each top-level team has a farm system of one or more minor league teams.

The name is often shortened to " Bosox " or " BoSox ," a combination of " Boston " and " Sox " ( similar to the " ChiSox " in Chicago or the minor league " PawSox " of Pawtucket ).

The modern Orioles franchise can trace its roots back to the original Milwaukee Brewers of the minor Western League, beginning in 1894 when the league reorganized.

The Orioles traded away star players Miguel Tejada to the Astros and ace Erik Bedard to the Seattle Mariners for prized prospect Adam Jones, lefty reliever George Sherrill, and minor league pitchers Kam Mickolio, Chris Tillman, and Tony Butler.

In 1970, he purchased the Seattle Pilots in bankruptcy court and renamed them the Milwaukee Brewers after minor league team of the same name he had watched in his youth, which existed until the arrival of the Braves in Milwaukee in 1952.

When Selig was only three, Marie began taking him and his older brother, Jerry, to Borchert Field, where the minor league Milwaukee Brewers played.

When his quest to keep the team in Milwaukee finally failed after the 1965 season, he changed the group's name to Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, Inc., after the minor league baseball team he grew up watching, and devoted himself to returning Major League Baseball to Milwaukee.

* Columbus Clippers, International League minor league baseball team

* Columbus Wood Bats, Great South League minor league baseball team

For minor league to amateur athletes, earnings are usually on the lower end of the pay-scale.

The team began as the minor league Sioux City Cornhuskers and played in the Western League.

It was still officially a minor league, subject to the governing National Agreement and an underling of the National League.

The White Stockings won the 1900 American League pennant led by player-manager Dick Padden, the final WL / AL championship season as a minor league .< ref >

Some people suggested Cleveland was at best the dominant team in a minor league, while others were confident of its prospects in the NFL.

The Cleveland team originated in 1900 as the Lake Shores, when the American League ( AL ) was officially a minor league.

A former owner of a minor league franchise in Milwaukee, Veeck brought to Cleveland a gift for promotion.

The Royals hired Trey Hillman, formerly the manager of the Nippon Ham Fighters and a minor league manager with the New York Yankees, to be the 15th manager in franchise history.

The Saints and the Carolina Panthers have been minor rivals since Carolina was introduced into the NFC West as an expansion franchise in 1995.

As the franchise has grown in popularity, several titles have been released that are set within or star a minor character from the universe of The Legend of Zelda but are not directly connected to the main The Legend of Zelda series.

There is also a Major League Soccer team called the Chicago Fire, and there are / were also NBA teams called the Memphis Grizzlies ( 2001 – present ) and Charlotte Hornets ( 1988 – 2002 ) ( although the nickname " Hornets " for minor league baseball teams in Charlotte long precedes the WFL entry, and the " Grizzlies " name for the Memphis NBA team was selected when the franchise was still in Vancouver ).

Following the 2006 season the franchise was acquired by the group PS and J Professional Baseball Club, LLC headed by Steve Malliet, an experienced minor league executive in both affiliated and independent baseball.

The Knights moved to Florida to become the Pensacola Ice Pilots in 1996, but Nashville made one more attempt at a minor league franchise in the CHL from 1996 to 1998.

Prior to the opening of Melching Field, the Hatters played at old Conrad Park on the same site, which also hosted spring training games in the 1940s and 1950s and the DeLand Red Hats, a Florida State League minor league franchise.

In 1935, the Boston Red Sox franchise had a minor league baseball team in Gladewater, the Gladewater Bears.

The franchise also explores minor themes including culture shock, the coming of age, and nostalgia.

As described in Lee Allen's book, The American League Story ( Putnam, 1962 ), the team began as the Sioux City franchise in a minor league called the Western League.

It was in an effort by a local sports management company that is seeking to bring a minor league franchise to Detroit in the Frontier League.

Following the War, the Panthers became a minor league franchise of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Richard Holtzman, another Chicago businessman who owned as many as five minor league teams, owned the franchise from 1987 until 1998.

The team began play as the Appleton Foxes in the Three-I League in 1958, five years after Appleton's previous minor league franchise, the Papermakers, folded along with the rest of the Wisconsin State League.

* In 2012, the Dragons franchise was said to be valued at $ 23 million making the team the most valuable class A minor league franchise in the United States.

Throughout their recent history, the Royals have enjoyed minor league affiliation with D. C. United, the nearby Major League Soccer franchise.

On July 8, 2009, Arena Digest. com reported that Baltimore City officials had postponed their plans for constructing a new arena, due in part to the struggling economy, and the officials ' decision split between building either an 18, 500 seat arena for a possible NBA or NHL franchise, or constructing a mid-size facility for concerts, family events, and minor league sports.

He retired after the season, though he apparently made a brief return to Buffalo ( by this time a minor league franchise ) in 1894.

During the re-privatisation of Melbourne's public transport system in April, 2004, the Metlink brand was transferred to a new company, Metlink Victoria Pty Ltd, the role of which was also to perform several minor functions previously performed by the State Government and the franchise operators.

The Nassau Coliseum hosted minor league hockey prior to the awarding of the Islanders franchise, an event that was brought back in 2005, when the Islanders-affiliated Bridgeport Sound Tigers ( AHL ) played two " home games " at the Coliseum in the absence of NHL hockey due to the 2004 – 05 NHL lockout.

In 1968 the Maple Leafs, the Red Sox ' top minor league club since 1965, were bought by Walter J. Dilbeck and moved to Louisville where they became the new Louisville Colonels, the Triple-A franchise of the Boston Red Sox.