Comments on: Bloops: A Timeline of the Highest Paid Player in Baseball

By: dburch

dburch — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:38:25 +0000

Long time reader, first time poster. I went through an exercise like this when A-Rod signed that first enormous contract, except I went all the way back to the 1800's. I haven't updated it to account for A-Rod's second enormous contract, and I might have to make a few corrections to account for the information in this article, but for anyone interested, here is my list.

By: gerry

gerry — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:42:12 +0000

I'm not old enough to remember DiMaggio. Some sources say Hank Greenberg made $100,000 in 1947, a bit before DiMaggio did.

By: fvzappa

fvzappa — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 04:21:40 +0000

You mean Joe DiMaggio... he was the first $100,000 player.

By: gerry

gerry — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:49:00 +0000

Some of us are old enough to remember when Mickey Mantle making $100,000 was a big deal.