Benjamin Hill travels the nation collecting stories about what makes Minor League Baseball unique. This excerpt from the Baseball Traveler newsletter, presented by Circle K, is a mere taste of the smorgasbord of delights he offers every week. Read the full newsletter here , and subscribe to his newsletter here .

The third annual MiLB Awards Show aired on MLB Network on Sept. 29, the day after the final Minor League game of the season. The show's producers, perhaps to their regret, were gracious enough to allow me to be a part of it.

Over the course of three and a half minutes -- the dumbest 210 seconds in sports -- I hosted an awards show within the awards show. The six winners, in categories I made up and will never utilize again, are exemplars of Minor League Baseball's

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