moskowizzle
moskowizzle t1_jci3mtb wrote
Reply to comment by staresatmaps in Victory! Minor League Baseball Players Are Finally Unionized. by theworkeragency
New Jersey Jackals and Rockland Boulders. A little further out you have the Sussex County Miners.
moskowizzle t1_jci332t wrote
Reply to comment by staresatmaps in Victory! Minor League Baseball Players Are Finally Unionized. by theworkeragency
I'm saying that these are teams in major metropolitan areas.
moskowizzle t1_jchy0cf wrote
Reply to comment by staresatmaps in Victory! Minor League Baseball Players Are Finally Unionized. by theworkeragency
There are independent teams just a few miles outside of NYC. The veteran (i.e. highest paid) players make a few thousand a month and that's only in-season. I last worked for one of them back in 2009 and the veteran cap was $3000/month. I'm assuming it's gone up at least a bit since then, but it's not like they're making bank. Rookies made $800/month.
moskowizzle t1_irxvq9i wrote
Reply to comment by PikesPique in TIL about Ragamuffin Day, a celebration in the New York metro area in the late-1800s and early-1900s in which children wore costumes and went door-to-door asking for candy or money on Thanksgiving. It fell out of favor as trick-or-treating on Halloween gained acceptance in the 1940s and '50s. by PikesPique
We do a ragamuffin parade every year here in Hoboken, NJ!
moskowizzle t1_jci4wie wrote
Reply to comment by staresatmaps in Victory! Minor League Baseball Players Are Finally Unionized. by theworkeragency
Jackals draw about 2000/game, but they're moving to a stadium that's about 2x the size of Yogi Berra Stadium.