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Originally Posted by dgo71
I don't know where you get your baseball terms from, but there's no need for quotation marks around professional. Minor league players get paid to play the game, hence they are the very definition of professional. In my experience, only the casual fans don't understand that difference.
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Would you consider barnstorming to be professional? They're getting paid. I have never heard of a fan refer to single A balls as the pros.
I know the literal definition of professional baseball, but I have never seen someone try to include minor league ball in career stat records.