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Old 09-29-2022, 10:29 AM
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Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive View Post
A question for the ages indeed.

Growing up in Minnesota my team was the Twins and one of my favorite ballplayers was Harmon Killebrew, who at the time (mid-1960's) was hitting homers very close to Ruth's AL record of 1 every 11.76 at-bats, and finished his career with the fifth most total homeruns in the AL. His high salary for any one year was I believe $100,000.00 which is about $915,000.00 today. Shows just how out-of-proportion major league salaries are today compared to times past.
I saw Mickey Mantle being interviewed in the late 1980s. He said that Roger Clemens would make more by the All Star Game that year than Mantle made in his entire career! He only made about $1.12 million in 18 years!!