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Published: March 17, 2021, 5:28 p.m.

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 \u2014 and carve an entire workforce out of minimum wage and overtime requirements.\n\nFor even more of \u201cThe Uncertain Hour,\u201d subscribe to our newsletter! Each week we\u2019ll bring you a note from host Krissy Clark and explain some terms that have come up in our reporting. This week we\u2019re looking at the Save America\u2019s Pastime Act.