”But that minimum salary is more than double the minimum from the past year, and it’s well ahead of the wages minor-league baseball players are suing to raise. Born 20 July 1932, in Pittsburgh, Rooney was a high school quarterback, then attended Duquesne, receiving a degree in accounting. Not so much for us, but for the other clubs it was even more of a problem. “There was talk of getting [Franz] Beckenbauer to play in the States,” Roy said.