The outliers were the Mount Olympus guys, however, guys like Aaron and Mays, DiMaggio and Williams, who were the best to ever play baseball – and who made their biggest money near or at the very end of their career.Įven though the players were the game, they didn’t share in the profits. There were always the outliers – a few players who dwarfed what the average American worker brought home, like Babe Ruth, who earned $80,000 a year during the Great Depression years of 19. Mays ended his spectacular 22-year career never making more than $180,000 a year. Hank Aaron was in the final year of a three-year, $600,000 contract that at signing had made him the highest-paid player in the history of the game at $200,000 per season. The average major league salary was $35,000. That year, the same year Rickey Henderson turned 16, the median household income in the United States was $11,000. B aseball players weren’t regular guys, but in 1974 they earned only slightly more than three times what the average American family paying to watch them play brought home.
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