MLB, Minor Leaguers Spar Over Level Playing Field for Pay Trial
- League calls its lobbying to change federal law ‘irrelevant’
- Players say big-league ‘dream’ has no place at fair wage trial
Major League Baseball says its lobbying efforts to exempt ball players from federal wage laws should be off limits at an upcoming trial over claims by minor leaguers about being paid “poverty” wages.
The players, meanwhile, are urging a judge to bar MLB from arguing that they chose to sacrifice a better-paying line of work because they are “chasing a dream” to some day play in the majors.