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Minor leagues in the sense intended in this article are professional sports leagues which are not regarded as the premier leagues in those sports. Minor league teams tend to play in smaller, less elaborate venues, often competing in smaller cities. This term is used in North America with regard to several organizations competing in various sports.

The most famous minor league organization is in baseball. Minor league baseball is almost as old as the professional game itself, and at first consisted of attempts to play baseball in smaller cities and towns independent of the National League, the first true major baseball league. Soon, scouts for the National League were travelling to watch minor league teams play and attempting to sign the more talented ones away. Some sports historians cite the connection between the other major league, the American League and its minor league forebear, the Western Association. Soon Major League Baseball began formal developmental agreements with some minor league teams, while others remained independent. The most prominent independent minor baseball league today is probably the Northern League.

Baseball is not the only sport with minor leagues. In fact all of the prominent team sports have them. The sport with the next most extensive system of minor leagues other than baseball is ice hockey. The American Hockey League is the most prominent of these, with most NHL teams having a "farm" team in the AHL where they develop young players and occasionally rehabilitate older players who are injured or whose quality of play has slumped. These teams in turn have lower-level minor leagues to draw players from and pass players down to. Junior and Senior hockey leagues are similar, but not exactly equivalent, to minor leagues due to their age and experience restrictions.

The National Basketball Association has an affiliated minor league, the National Basketball Development League. Additionally, the Continental Basketball AssociationThe Continental Basketball Association is a professional men's basketball league in the United States. The league views itself as a minor league that develops talent for the National Basketball Association. The CBA can date its origins back to April 23, 1 has served some of the purposes of a minor league for the NBA for many years. However, there are no direct developmental agreements between CBA and NBA teams the way that there are between Major League Baseball and National Hockey League teams and their minor league affiliates.

While there are various semi-professional footballThis article deals with the history and development of the different sports around the world known as "Football". For links to specific articles on each type of football, please see the list at the bottom of this article. Football is the name given to a n leagues, none have any affiliation with the National Football LeagueFor other uses of the abbreviation "NFL," see NFL (disambiguation). The National Football League NFL is the largest and most popular professional American football league in the world, consisting of thirty-two teams from American cities. The league was fo. Its only "official" developmental minor league is NFL EuropeNFL Europe was originally founded in the spring of 1991 as the World League of American Football . The original WLAF was an American football league partially backed by the National Football League and, like the current NFL Europe, was a spring developmen. Many consider the Arena Football LeagueThe Arena Football League was founded in 1987 as an American football indoor league. Attendance at AFL games in 2004 averaged about 12,000 people per game. The Arena Football League also maintains a minor league called af2. The AFL was founded by Jim Fost to be a minor league, but this is not exactly the case. While the NFL now allows its owners also to own Arena teams, the games are considerably different, and the AFL has aspirations to be a major league in its right, and has its own minor league, af2.

Other sports organizations considered to be minor leagues are the golf Nationwide TourThe Nationwide Tour is the developmental tour for the PGA TOUR, and features professional golfers who have either failed to score well enough at that level's Qualifying School (the main tour's qualifying tournament, popularly referred to as "Q-School") or, affiliated with the PGA Tour, NASCAR's Busch Series and various other affilated satellite tours of other individual sports.

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