Minor League Pay
How the baseball industry created an entire workforce exempt from being paid minimum wage and overtime – and why baseball players aren’t the only ones crying foul.
Reveal · The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX
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Show Notes
From the Frisco RoughRiders to the Dayton Dragons, minor league baseball teams are a classic American tradition. But their players are not covered by some classic American laws: Players can earn less than the equivalent of minimum wage and don’t get paid overtime.
We explore how that’s even possible with the podcast The Uncertain Hour from our colleagues at Marketplace. This season, they’re looking at how certain companies – and whole industries – maneuver around basic worker protections.
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