American Association

American Association may refer to one of the following professional baseball leagues:

  • American Association (19th century), active from 1882 to 1891
  • American Association (20th century), active from 1902 to 1962 and 1969 to 1997
  • American Association of Independent Professional Baseball, founded in 2006

American Association may also refer to:

  • American Association (football), a minor professional American football league that existed from 1936 to 1950

Famous quotes containing the words american and/or association:

    “It is easy to see that, even in the freedom of early youth, an American girl never quite loses control of herself; she enjoys all permitted pleasures without losing her head about any of them, and her reason never lets the reins go, though it may often seem to let them flap.”
    —Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)

    “An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)