Summary
Baseball's extreme fascination with numbers extends beyond bloated home-run totals and elevated earned-run averages, to the realm where the figures have dollar signs preceding them.
Last week, we learned that New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez, at an annual salary of $28 million for 2008, makes more than the entire Florida Marlins team ($21.8 million).See the full content of this document
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Big Checks in Baseball Don't Make Cents
This is not historic. In 1997, when Albert Belle was pulling down a cool $10 million to play for the Chicago White Sox, the Pirates' roster earned a combined salary of $9.07 million.
What is historic is the new Yankee Stadium, currently under construction for a 2009 opener, is expec...See the full content of this document
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