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Social Injustice in Minor League Baseball: How Major League Baseball Makes Use of an Antitrust Exemption to Exploit its Employees

Gregg Steinman

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It is] very much like the indentured servitude of the 1700"s.When you first sign, you are owned by that team for basically 7 seasons.A team can buy you, sell you, send you to another country, or fire you whenever they want.They can cut you if you get hurt.A player, on the other hand, cannot try to play for someone else.He can [not] try out for his home team.

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It is] very much like the indentured servitude of the 1700"s.When you first sign, you are owned by that team for basically 7 seasons.A team can buy you, sell you, send you to another country, or fire you whenever they want.They can cut you if you get hurt.A player, on the other hand, cannot try to play for someone else.He can [not] try out for his home team.

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It is] very much like the indentured servitude of the 1700"s.When you first sign, you are owned by that team for basically 7 seasons.A team can buy you, sell you, send you to another country, or fire you whenever they want.They can cut you if you get hurt.A player, on the other hand, cannot try to play for someone else.He can [not] try out for his home team.

Key concepts: League, Exploit, Injustice, Minor (academic), Advertising, Business, Political science, Law

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