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The American Association ( AA) was a Minor League Baseball league that operated primarily in the Midwestern and South Central United States from 1902 to 1962 and 1969 to 1997. It was classified as a Triple-A league, which is one grade below Major League Baseball, for most of its existence.
American Association (AA) History 1882-1891 (10 seasons) Leagues Baseball AA. Beginning in May 1882 and continuing for a full decade, the Association became a significant force in the early development of Major League baseball.
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The history of baseball in the United States dates to the 19th century, when boys and amateur enthusiasts played a baseball -like game by their own informal rules using homemade equipment. The popularity of the sport grew and amateur men's ball clubs were formed in the 1830–50s.
Before the 1901 season, the American League, often misprinted in news papers as the "American Association", was classified as a "special class", a level above Class-A minor league baseball. Indianapolis, Minneapolis, and Buffalo were dropped as franchises before the 1901 season and new teams added in Baltimore , Philadelphia and Boston . [4]
American Association (American football), a minor professional American football league that existed from 1936 to 1950.
The history of American football can be traced to early versions of rugby football and association football. Both games have their origin in multiple varieties of football played in the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century, in which a football is kicked at a goal or kicked over a line, which in turn were based on the varieties of English ...
American football historian Parke H. Davis described the period between 1869 and 1875 as the 'Pioneer Period'; the years 1876–93 he called the 'Period of the American Intercollegiate Football Association'; and the years 1894–1933 he dubbed the 'Period of Rules Committees and Conferences'.
