Fight Against Low, Low Pay In Minor League Baseball Continues Despite New Obstacles
It's been well-documented in recent years that minor league baseball players don't exactly share in the riches of the game. Most minor leaguers make an estimated $7,500 for a year. Major league players average more than $4 million.
A law passed by Congress a few months ago essentially locked in low minor league pay. But that hasn't stopped a small group of people fighting to help those players.
In an era of growing sports activism, creating a new website isn't quite a kneeling-during-the-national-anthem moment. But when former minor league player Jeremy Wolf launched morethanbaseball.org in April, it was an opening salvo in that fight to help minor leaguers.
From his home in San Antonio, Wolf says, "Even minor league umpires have a union and Major League Baseball has its own union. But minor league players are kind of on their own island. I want this [website] to
