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Show The Business of Baseball. The game as nationally organized is ' divided into major and minor baseball. This is a distinction which prevails be- , tween the players' professionally and also between the financial promoters in their understandings with one another it is both a professional and a com- ', mercial division. The two major leagues, the National and the Ameri- can, are each an association of clubs ' (or pioperties, in the financial view) ( which employ the star players of the , country and handle them according to the business methods made necessary ' by metropolitan demands. On the oth- ' er hand, the multitude qf minor leagues, also composed of professional . players, provide the best that can be afforded by crowds of the second and ' third magnitude. There are about 33 baseball leagues, and altogether they , furnish the regular series of games of 256 cities and towns Sn the United ' States and Canada for Canada has become a part of us in this respect, and ' crosses our borders regularly to give us pitched battles. A season's payroll for these players amounts approxi- ' mately to $4,000,000. Century Maga- zine. 1 |