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Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange
I think we should be careful about using the term 'loan' because the Major League Rules have always expressly disallowed player loans. Player movement was usually the result of sales of their contract from one club to another; sometimes it was the result of being traded.
I would caution also about the term 'affiliate era' because even within 'era' the nature of the relationship changed considerably. A minor league affiliate of 1931 was a very different thing from an affiliate of 1961, and different again from an affiliate of 1991. (What might be termed the 'modern' era of minor league affiliation started with the changes to the major-minor relationship adopted in 1963; and even then, minor league clubs still had a degree of freedom which did not exist in later years.)
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some good points. i never realized how little i knew about the minors before reading some of these posts. Made a list of books to start getting from Amazon in near future, once i get the last couple of "must haves" on Negro Leagues read. Thanks for the insights.
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