We saw our first minor league game last night (7-31-09) and it lasted almost 4 hours for 9 innings!
Minor League baseball player from Western Michigan University. Drafted by the New York Yankees and played on many minor league teams. Last played for the Florida Marlins minor league team Portland Sea Dogs.
The Negro National League disbanded after the 1949 season. The Negro American League continued playing games until 1958, but were barely a minor league. Schedules became increasingly erratic, and the teams were more a group of independent barn-stormers than part of a league.
usually about 2 hrs 40 min
The first league for African-American ball players was founded in 1887, even as some minor league clubs had such players on their rosters. The last such league folded in 1951.
Major League Baseball has a season that begins in the Spring, runs through the Summer and ends in the Fall. The last games of the season are the World Series games. They normally end by mid October.
2008,2009,2010.
Hank Aaron was the last Negro League player to have a regular position in the Major League. Minnie Minoso was the last to actually play in a MLB game. (Two games for the White Sox in 1980.)
Cardinals Dizzy Dean in 1934, 30 victories.
There have been no pitchers named Don Smith in MLB but several in the minor leagues. One pitched in the Dodgers minor league system between 1982-1985, another pitched in the Cubs minor league system between 1964-1967, a third pitched in the Dodgers minor league system in 1951 and 1952 and, in 2010, a Don Smith pitched in the independent Northern League.
The Texas Rangers are in the American League and they won the last two American League Championship games losing both years (2010 and 2012) to the National League Champions.
2009 and 2008