(Unlike their counterparts in the bigs, minor leaguers are not represented by the Major League Baseball Players Association. Under the most recent collective-bargaining agreement, minimum annual pay for a major leaguer is $507,500).
The players themselves chipped in: Mostly castoffs from bigger minor league teams, they earn $500 to $800 a month, stay with host families or relatives on the road and travel in chartered buses.
The Astros are essentially the biggest minor-league club in the country.
Mr. Menuhin has much of the spotlight to himself tonight and on Sunday afternoon, when he will play Schubert's big C minor Sonata (D. 958) and the Impromptu No. 3 in B flat (D. 935) before the other players join him for the Brahms Piano Quartet No. 2 in A (Op. 26).
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The essence of the book is in the long, slow nights that Mr. Weber spends unwinding over a beer or two with dozens of big- and minor-league umpires.
"I was kind of baffled to see a guy that big in the minor leagues doing what he was doing.
Williams herself was forced out of a December exhibition against Azarenka in Thailand after undergoing a minor big toe procedure.
"Unfortunately, some politicians in the United States have made an attempt to sacrifice big issues for minor political games," said Turkey's newly elected president, Abdullah Gul.
