The price of dreams in America is often starvation for your art. This is the harsh truth for a street rapper aspiring to be as famous as Post Malone and the unknown sculptor fantasizing about someday staging an exhibit at the Guggenheim Museum.
But starving to chase a dream of playing baseball in The Show? Believe me, it happens.
For far too long, major-league baseball has shamelessly exploited athletes riding buses in the low minor leagues. It’s a dirty, little secret that no longer should be romanticized as a rite of passage. At the lowest levels of a multibillion-dollar business, players are treated like indentured servants in ballcaps.