Bloops: A Timeline of the Highest Paid Player in Baseball
Posted by Neil Paine on December 9, 2009
With the Winter Meetings in full swing and free agent buzz reaching a fever pitch, Larry Granillo of Wezen-Ball looked back from 1979-2009 at the evolution of the salary due baseball's highest-paid player. Remember when Nolan Ryan making >$1 million was a big deal?
December 9th, 2009 at 5:49 pm
Some of us are old enough to remember when Mickey Mantle making $100,000 was a big deal.
December 9th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
You mean Joe DiMaggio... he was the first $100,000 player.
December 10th, 2009 at 6:42 am
I'm not old enough to remember DiMaggio. Some sources say Hank Greenberg made $100,000 in 1947, a bit before DiMaggio did.
December 13th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
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.