The Minor League Committee has started a number of projects over the past several years. Unfortunately, only a few committee members become involved in these projects. One of our big projects was a fourth volume of Minor League Baseball Stars. Quite a few people wrote and said that this was a great idea. However, only a few indicated that they would work on the project. Thus, we abandoned the project.

Projects still in progress include:

• 19th Century Minor Leagues. This involves compiling a list of all 19th Century pro leagues and gathering as much data as possible on each one.
• Farm Clubs. Compiling list of all farm clubs of each major league club and farm clubs of minor league clubs. Bill McMahon is doing 95% of the work on this project.
• 2,000 Cups Of Coffee. Lists all players who played in 10 games or less in the major leagues in the first half of the 20th Century and all of their minor league affiliations. Marc Okkonen is doing 98% of the work on this project.
• Less Than 10 Games. Many leagues, prior to 1962, did not publish stats for players in less than 10 games. We are compiling these stats for many of the high classification minors.
• League Averages. Several members are compiling complete stats for leagues where no stats were published.
• The Encyclopedia Of Minor League Baseball. A third edition of this book is planned for next year. We are supplying the editors with additions and corrections to the second edition.
• The National Pastime: The Museum Of Minor League Baseball. This is an organization that is establishing a minor league museum and hall of fame. One of the features of the museum will be a roster of every person who ever played in the minors. A number of our committee members are helping with this project.
• Deaths Of Minor League Players. Committee member Ray Nemec compiles a death list of minor league players who never played in the majors. Many committee members feed info to Ray and the list is published in each newsletter.
• We raise various questions in the newsletters and ask members to comment. Included in recent newsletters were (1) Determining league batting champs, (2) Hall of Famers who were teammates on a minor league team, (3) Long service minor league players, (4) The 1905 Ohio-Pennsylvania League.
  
  Bob McConnell
  Chair, Minor Leagues Committee
  May 1, 2003