by Nathaniel Grow - September 15, 2015
Over the last couple years, the battle for higher wages for minor league baseball players has been fought on several legal fronts. The highest profile challenge has come in the form of litigation claiming that the minor league pay scale — under which minor league players often earn as little as $3,000 to $7,500 per year — violates the nation’s minimum wage laws.
At the same time, however, a separate lawsuit filed last December attacked the problem from a different legal angle.