Dream Season: Owning Your Own Team

It may be the ultimate dream - the only way some of us will ever really compete in the big leagues: owning your own baseball team. Turns out, you don't need to win the Mega Millions jackpot (currently at $400M) to own your own professional baseball team. You can become a partial owner of a minor league team for as little as $100,000 according to the Sports Advisory Group.

If you don't play well with others, your very own minor league team can range from $20 million for a well-established AAA or AA team to as little as $250,000 for an independent minor league team. You can even stay close to home. Apparently one of the Low A Midwest League teams, located mostly in Iowa and Wisconsin, is for sale.

Even closer to home is most of the Northwoods League, which has franchises in Alexandria, Willmar, St. Cloud, Mankato, Rochester, and Duluth. You don't even need to pay professional contracts to these guys: they feature college players performing for scouts and dozens of Major League players are alums, including