Minor League Baseball: Boom Or Bust To Communities?
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Despite the occasional disappointment, minor league baseball provides
many communities with economic development and an improved quality of life.
Communities as small as Elizabethtown, Tennessee or as large as Phoenix, Arizona
have shared the common bond of being the homes of major league farm te ....
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.... corner bar. A family of four
can see a game, eat dinner--maybe even pick up a souvenir or two--without having
to consider a second mortgage. No lockouts, no holdouts, no five-dollar beers,
and the umpire is the only one who can call a strike. “Just the national
pastime, played the game it is,” says one editor of The Minor League Baseball
Book.
There are currently 156 teams that are part of the National Association
of Professional Baseball. This number will grow in the next few years ....
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