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Originally Posted by swampdragon
Check your source for 1931 and see if those are the same. I'm curious to find out whether this is something that caught on in 1932, or whether that's a BB reference thing.
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Not a BB reference thing, as far as I know. It matches.
As noted elsewhere, 1932 was when affiliations moved from beyond...
1. Detroit having one affiliate each year (since 1919)
2. The Cardinals having one affiliate from '19 thru '26, then 2, then 3...
3. A few other teams occasionally having one affiliate for a few years
... to (almost) every team having one or two affiliates, a few teams - Cleveland, Detroit, Yankees, Browns - having more than two, and the Cards leading the way with a whopping 11. The Phillies were the holdout, waiting until 1934 for their first affiliate.