amateur vs minor league

amateur

adj
  • Showing a lack of professionalism, experience or talent. 

  • Non-professional. 

  • Created, done, or populated by amateurs or non-professionals. 

noun
  • Someone who is unqualified or insufficiently skillful. 

  • A person attached to a particular pursuit, study, science, or art (such as music or painting), especially one who cultivates any study, interest, taste, or attachment without engaging in it professionally. 

minor league

adj
  • Having a quality less than the best possible. 

noun
  • An association of sports teams that plays at a level below the major leagues of a sport. 

How often have the words amateur and minor league occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )