Earlier this year, I attended a personal appearance for Vernon Law, Cy Young Award winner of the 1960 Pirates. Even back in his day (more than a half century after Honus), he told us that just about every MLB player had an off-season job to make ends meet.
I remember reading that the Dodgers top pitcher in the '60s, Sandy Koufax, made around $25,000 per year.
9 posted on 10/29/2010 12:27:54 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono
(Had God not driven man from the Garden of Eden the Sierra Club surely would have.)