Today is an off-day, and also the first day that AA and A+ gets underway. Here are a few thoughts for the uninitiated on following the minor league teams.
I began following minor league baseball around 1990, and even worked for an Independent team in the California League one summer. It was around the time the Astros were trending bad and I was looking for signs of hope. This was before the Internet, so the best way to get informed was to subscribe to Baseball America, a bi-weekly that looked like The Sporting News.
In college I subscribed to the Boston Globe and hung on every word from Peter Gammons.