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Three Levels Of Baseball

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The Layers of Baseball

There are many different levels of baseball all around the world ranging from age four all the way to age fourty, if you are good enough that is. With all of these different levels throughout the world the three highest and most commonly known are high school, collegiate, and professional. According to Baseball America, one of the world leading baseball services, there are an estimated two and a half million people playing in only these three levels of baseball. Playing in no one level can gurantee your progression to the next, even the sublevels of professional baseball. Throughout the many different levels and layers of baseball there are millions of people all reaching for the same goal.
High school baseball is the most played and least competitive level of baseball. …show more content…

There are five different sublevels of Major League Baseball and four of them are directly related to a respective major league team. The levels, from lowest to highest, are independent leagues, single A, double A, and triple A. The ages in the Major Leagues, and its sublevels of professional baseball, normally ranges from eighteen, kids drafted straight out of high school, to forty, seasoned veterans and the best of the best. Independent leagues are leagues not affiliated with major league teams where undrafted players go to try to make a name for themselves and get picked up and noticed by a major league team who is willing to give them a chance in their orginizaton. Single A through triple A are all affiliated with a major league team but this is not a long term job, according to the website for the MILB the mean salary being forty four thousand dollars per year, while the league minimum for the MLB is four hundred and ninety five thousand dollars per year. Professional baseball is the highest level anyone can get to and is reached for by athletes of all

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