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While the average salary for Major League Baseball players last year was nearly $4.1 million, according to the MLBPA, the maximum first-year player salary in the minor leagues is $1,100 per month.
The provision in the $1.3 trillion “Save America’s Pastime Act,” on page 1,967 of the 2,232-page spending bill, proposes amending the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to include the following:
