( October 31, 2025, 22:31 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Minor league players bringing US antitrust claims against Major League Baseball asked the Supreme Court to reconsider a review of their case. “The Curt Flood Act creates an exemption from the wage-fixing protections of the antitrust laws for professional Minor League baseball players, while providing those very same antitrust protections to Major League baseball players, i.e., allowing the Major League owners to wage fix, at below competitive levels, the salaries of professional Minor League baseball players, while prohibiting the wage fixing of Major League baseball players’ salaries. There is no rational basis for this discrimination against Minor League players,” they said. See attached file. ...
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