Minor League Pay
Reveal
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Save America's Past Time Act
The Save America's past time act carved out baseball players from minimum wage and overtime laws. It was tacked onto page 1,967 of an omnibus spending bill that had to pass Congress four days later in order to keep the government from shutting down. So as long as MLB paid minor league players $290 a week for five months, Garrett says the law said players had no right to overtime or any other pay during the year.
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