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Many of those prospects are relatively unknown, even to avid baseball fans. Up-and-comers in baseball have a much lower profile than those in football and basketball.
“Football and basketball are clearly the most popular college sports,’’ said Ray Artigue, former executive director of the MBA Sports Business Program at Arizona State University who now runs his own marketing and
Arizona Fall League background
The Arizona Fall League was the brainchild of Roland Hemond, a longtime baseball executive who is currently a special assistant to Arizona Diamondbacks CEO Derrick Hall. The idea was to give provide more seasoning for top prospects and use the spring training ballparks in Arizona, which were bunched more tightly than the ones on Florida.
Each major-league organization assigns players to one of the six Fall League squads.
The first season was 1992.