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...past five years, a hierarchy has developed in baseball. Within the majors, there are really three classes: Single A teams, Triple A teams and the parent squads. Kansas City, Montreal and Tampa Bay are Single A clubs. Oakland, Cincinnati, the White Sox, Toronto and Minnesota are AAA teams. Anyone with a payroll of over 60 million dollars is a parent organization...
...chain begins in the lower minor leagues—Kansas City, for example. Young players try to work their way into the “big leagues,” or, at least, rise in the farm system. When they reach a level of success, they are promoted to AAA, or Oakland. Take Jeremy Giambi. Or Johnny Damon. Or Jermaine Dye. Kansas City seems to promote all its good players to the A’s. Can you name the players Oakland traded to Kansas City for these guys? The way the system works, Oakland benefits while Kansas City...
This incident follows one last spring involving the Asian American Association (AAA) and the Korean Association. A Korean Association member objected to a drawing in AAA’s annually published Handbook to Asian America at Harvard and Beyond that depicted a Korean Association representative sporting spiky hair, sunglasses, a dark suit and smoking a cigarette. Drawings of other Asian American students were nondescript...
...become the school’s third athlete to meet a World ‘A’ qualifying standard this year after running a 100-meter dash in a personal-best 10.24 seconds on July 14 to place fourth at the Norwich Union World Outdoor Trials and AAA Championships...
...bother trying. But the current owners of the Jefferson believed five stars were essential to the hotel's success. This year, for the first time in its 105-year history, the Jefferson made it, becoming one of 17 U.S. hotels to hold both a Mobil five-star and a AAA five-diamond rating...