[Mr_Moonlight]

yeah, he wishes he were top-side making $30m/yr and not the $80K he played for.

"I know, but I had a better year than (President Herbert) Hoover." - 1930 Babe Ruth response to his salary of $80,000 being more than the President's $75,000

[gusopol3]

and nobody made that much again for years. I remember when Mays and Mantle went over 100k in the mid-sixties.