Before arbitration, players were treated badly, (like a slave according to Curt Flood), by the owners. If you didn't accept the salary offered, they didn't care if you had to drive a truck for the money you needed to support your family.
The story of Ralph Kiner wanting a $10,000 a year raise and the owners wanted to give him significantly less. They asked him why and he said he hit 51 homers that year. They asked him what place did we finish last year. He repied "last".
They replied, we can finish last without you.
I don't like the prices to go see a game and as always, the fan winds up paying but then nobody is going to pay to see a carpenter drive nails into a board. The ballplayers consider themselves entertainers.
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"It doesn't cost "nuttin", to be nice".  MOM
I just want to do the right thing! Uncle Joe, (my hero).
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