MLBPA supports Fair Ball Act protecting Minor League Players

NEW YORK, November 20 – MLBPA Executive Director Tony Clark today voiced the union’s full support for the Fair Ball Act, which would reform the Save America’s Pastime Act (SAPA) so that its federal minimum wage exception for Minor League Players applies only when Players are receiving alternate protection through the collective bargaining process.

In a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Richard J. Durbin (D-IL), Clark wrote:

“The Fair Ball Act appropriately narrows SAPA so that Minor League ballplayers will be exempted from federal wage and hour laws if and only if their compensation has been determined via good faith collective bargaining.  This is a win for Minor Leaguers, for baseball, and indeed for workers and collective bargaining as a whole.” 

The full text of Clark’s letter to Sen. Durbin can be accessed here.