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🗓️ 17 March 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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In minor league baseball, professional athletes train, suit up and play for wages that would be illegal in most sectors. Players live in crowded apartments, sleep on air mattresses, work side jobs and scrape by. This week, a story about life in the minor leagues and how the baseball industry convinced Congress to rewrite federal law — and carve an entire workforce out of minimum wage and overtime requirements.
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| 0:34.2 | He grew up in Rochester, New York, a city that had not one, not two, not three, not four |
| 0:41.1 | minor league sports teams. We had five minor league sports teams. What? Yeah. Why? I don't |
| 0:48.8 | know, Rochester, New York. We had basketball, we had hockey, we had lacrosse, we had soccer, |
| 0:55.2 | and of course we had baseball. Yeah! Baseball was definitely the most popular one in town. |
| 1:06.3 | So you feel like a connection to the minor leagues? Oh for sure, I mean we went, we would go |
| 1:11.5 | every summer at least. |
| 1:13.5 | Zub. Hey. Peter actually called his sister Marissa |
| 1:19.5 | recently to talk about the Red Wings, their minor league baseball team. I did. |
| 1:24.9 | Rochester's a Red Wings definitely, there's a special place for them in my heart. Why? Because |
| 1:30.5 | they chose me to go down during like the seventh inning stretch. Red Wings games are super |
| 1:35.6 | fun. In between innings they'd have competitions on the field. Kids would compete for who could |
| 1:40.9 | throw the most balls into a crate. Or have a dance off of spikes, the team's big red bird |
| 1:47.6 | mascot. And this one night I'm in elementary school, my sisters in middle school, and they |
| 1:53.7 | chose her to compete. She was stoked. Like this doesn't happen to you, not a Rochester |
| 1:59.3 | Red Wings game, but it happened to me. Okay. |
| 2:03.1 | Marissa and two other girls were gonna go on the field and race, while holding trays |
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