Highlighted entries:
1943
The Texas League announces it will quit for the duration of the war. The Cardinals, with 260 farm players in the service, will reduce farm clubs from 22 to 6. Only nine minor leagues will start the 1943 season. Advertisements for players appear in The Sporting News.
1896
The National League adopts changes in the National Agreement. The minor leagues are divided into six classifications based on population, and new draft fees are instituted.
I'm trying to think of this off the top of my head so the Classes were D, C, B, A, AA, and AAA.
Also from 1896
The NL forbids players from deliberately soiling baseballs, declares that "a ball cutting the corners of the home plate, and being requisite height, must be called a strike," and empowers umpires to eject players.
Umpires couldn't call a strike on the corners and couldn't eject a player? That was baseball?
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