Baseball's legendary players salaries adjust for inflation

[kdailey4315]

This is pretty crazy. Talk about a bargain.

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=y ... ries052110

 

[masonphillip]

It's not quite an apples to apples comparison for obvious reasons but the simplest explanation is that the enormous revenue that stars can generate for teams today has lead to increased paydays in a big way.

Interesting none the less though.

 

[kdailey4315]

It's not quite an apples to apples comparison for obvious reasons but the simplest explanation is that the enormous revenue that stars can generate for teams today has lead to increased paydays in a big way.

Interesting none the less though.

It pretty much started with Free Agency. As soon as you had multiple teams bidding for a player the salaries jump exponentially. If there was Free Agency back then I'm positive their salaries would have been 3 times what they were.

 

[masonphillip]

It's not quite an apples to apples comparison for obvious reasons but the simplest explanation is that the enormous revenue that stars can generate for teams today has lead to increased paydays in a big way.

Interesting none the less though.

It pretty much started with Free Agency. As soon as you had multiple teams bidding for a player the salaries jump exponentially. If there was Free Agency back then I'm positive their salaries would have been 3 times what they were.

And the massive media contracts that now exist for players and the massive amount of exposure sports now gets in media and the massive amount of advertising sold through that media.

I think Ty Cobb was the first millionaire athlete...I wonder if Lebron will be the first billionaire.

 

[GiantsSuperCollector]

It's not quite an apples to apples comparison for obvious reasons but the simplest explanation is that the enormous revenue that stars can generate for teams today has lead to increased paydays in a big way.

Interesting none the less though.

It pretty much started with Free Agency. As soon as you had multiple teams bidding for a player the salaries jump exponentially. If there was Free Agency back then I'm positive their salaries would have been 3 times what they were.

And the massive media contracts that now exist for players and the massive amount of exposure sports now gets in media and the massive amount of advertising sold through that media.

I think Ty Cobb was the first millionaire athlete...I wonder if Lebron will be the first billionaire.

*cough*Tiger Woods*cough*

 

[andyduke86]

It's not quite an apples to apples comparison for obvious reasons but the simplest explanation is that the enormous revenue that stars can generate for teams today has lead to increased paydays in a big way.

Interesting none the less though.

It pretty much started with Free Agency. As soon as you had multiple teams bidding for a player the salaries jump exponentially. If there was Free Agency back then I'm positive their salaries would have been 3 times what they were.

And the massive media contracts that now exist for players and the massive amount of exposure sports now gets in media and the massive amount of advertising sold through that media.

I think Ty Cobb was the first millionaire athlete...I wonder if Lebron will be the first billionaire.

Cobb was allegedly the first millionaire athlete because of his great off field investments, most notably in Coca-Cola.