Below is the listing of each year of the Minor Leagues as tracked by FanSeeStats. Links go to Blog.FanSeeStats.com.
In North America, previous to 1857 the rise of leisure time allowed for people to play more sports for personal enjoyment. Yet the idea of organizing this play with teams and into a formal structure had not yet been adopted. Tracking individual achievements was done in Boxing, but tracking how well a team did with a win/lose record would only get its start in 1857.
After organized sports got going and become increasingly professional, it was not very long before we see other leagues created to support the Big Four Sports or in other sports. Minor-Leagues.com tracks does not track every league that was ever created but if you’re interested you can see most of these listed on our Obsolete Leagues page.