| 3/1/2017 7:36:18 PM |
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enard
Lakeville, MN
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...the form in which it existed in the year you first started following the game? Me? I prefer 1972.
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| 3/2/2017 6:21:37 AM |
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bsjr76
Tulsa, OK
40, joined Feb. 2016
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1986. National League to be exact. Mets World Champs. Schmidt MVP.
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| 3/2/2017 10:11:09 AM |
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sillylaugher61
Murrysville, PA
55, joined Aug. 2011
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First off, I do wish the the home plate umpires would call the strike zone as per
the rule book. Also allow the pitchers to pitch inside! you want to stand close to the plate, well the pitcher needs to be allowed to throw a brushback pitch.
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| 3/2/2017 12:13:05 PM |
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tommy8345
Raleigh, NC
71, joined Feb. 2014
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...the form in which it existed in the year you first started following the game? Me? I prefer 1972.
enard, good question! Since I am old school I prefer that baseball be played the way it was invented to be played. This means no instant replay, no stupid designated hitter rule, starting pitchers who can actually pitch nine full innings, no relief pitching specialist who is allowed to pitch to only one hitter, and fewer players on the roster to lower ticket prices for the every day fan. I know, I'm dreaming because all professional sports have become big business these days. There was a time that if any player made $100,000 a year it was considered insane and just look at some of these contracts today.
Trivia question without looking it up . . . Who was the first MLB player to make $100,000 a year?
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| 3/2/2017 12:30:44 PM |
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cupocheer
Assumption, IL
68, joined May. 2010
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Babe Ruth?
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| 3/2/2017 10:08:57 PM |
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enard
Lakeville, MN
57, joined Apr. 2012
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Mantle, as in Mickey.
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| 3/3/2017 10:10:17 PM |
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sorpstar
Wayne, NJ
64, joined Oct. 2009
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Babe Ruth 50 k
Greenburg 100k
Cup 50cents
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| 3/4/2017 11:53:13 AM |
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tommy8345
Raleigh, NC
71, joined Feb. 2014
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Babe Ruth 50 k
Greenburg 100k
Cup 50cents
 . . . Cup was overpaid!
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| 3/4/2017 12:39:15 PM |
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cupocheer
Assumption, IL
68, joined May. 2010
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Do you know that when I started work at age 15, at Woolworth's, I was paid 50ยข an hour. Great pay back then. I left that job (with a 2 week notice) and went to work at Kresge's for the same amount but one earned better tips there. 
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| 4/15/2017 3:24:53 AM |
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cactus911
Lexington, KY
62, joined May. 2011
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CANT stomach that ridiculous game with uneven playing fields and they cant even get the name correct "WORLD-SERIES" a joke...
THE world isn't involved the correct name should be THE AMERICAN and CANADIAN BASEBALL CHAMPIONSHIP...
ONLY the WORLD CUP of soccer really involves the WOrld...
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| 4/16/2017 11:37:44 PM |
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driver406
Saint Paul, MN
65, joined Oct. 2009
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I prefer 1962. You knew the players then too and they weren't always getting in trouble or it didn't make the press as much. And all these specialty pitchers drive me nuts!  Do you really need to use 6 pitchers in a game and half of them are only pitching to 1 or 2 batters tops? Or you have an 8th inning guy and a closer? Al Worthington was the closest thing we had to a closer when I was a kid.
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| 4/16/2017 11:41:34 PM |
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driver406
Saint Paul, MN
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enard, good question! Since I am old school I prefer that baseball be played the way it was invented to be played. This means no instant replay, no stupid designated hitter rule, starting pitchers who can actually pitch nine full innings, no relief pitching specialist who is allowed to pitch to only one hitter, and fewer players on the roster to lower ticket prices for the every day fan. I know, I'm dreaming because all professional sports have become big business these days. There was a time that if any player made $100,000 a year it was considered insane and just look at some of these contracts today.
Trivia question without looking it up . . . Who was the first MLB player to make $100,000 a year?
Now this guy agrees with MY way of thinking!!!
I thought Ruth topped out at 80000. I know Ty Cobb always said Connie Mack was quite generous when he had the money as he did in 27 28 when Cobb played them. You out to be able to find it on baseball-reference.com. BEST sports site EVER! Free too.
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| 4/17/2017 12:00:17 AM |
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driver406
Saint Paul, MN
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Cobb peaked at 50, Ruth peaked at 80 but that's darn good money for the Depression. Speaker, Hornsby, Greenberg never came close! DiMaggio maybe? Mantle? Must have been a 50s player. Aaron? Mays? Banks? Don't know.
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| 4/17/2017 12:14:54 AM |
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driver406
Saint Paul, MN
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I've been on baseball-reference and I found DiMaggio made 100 grand in 49. Mantle in 63, Aaron in 70, 200 grand by 72, Mays by 66. DiMaggio must be the first one. The Yankees always had the best attendance and they certainly could have afforded it. Banks never did make 100! My vote goes for DiMaggio.
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| 4/17/2017 12:35:30 AM |
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sorpstar
Wayne, NJ
64, joined Oct. 2009
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Joe d was first to make 100k
And cup of cheer 50cents...like Tommy said cup was overpaid
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| 4/17/2017 12:44:17 AM |
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sorpstar
Wayne, NJ
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It didn't take long for the news -- and the photo -- to reach Briggs' desk, and needless to say, he wasn't happy about it. Without bothering to investigate further, he sold Greenberg to the Pirates on Jan. 18, 1947 for $35,000 -- only after ensuring that the other American League teams wouldn't put in a waiver claim, lest his former star come back to haunt him.
Greenberg was so distraught that he threatened to retire, but the Pirates managed to coax him into coming to Pittsburgh. They upped his salary to a then-record $100,000, and even brought in the left-field fence at Forbes Field for their new slugger's pull-happy swing -- thus creating a "Greenberg Gardens" section beyond the wall.
Greenberg eventually relented, hitting 25 homers in his one year with the Pirates before retiring for good. More importantly for baseball history, though, he spent that season mentoring a promising Pittsburgh youngster who benefitted even more from the short porch in left: Ralph Kiner, who eventually turned Greenberg Gardens into Kiner's Corner.
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| 4/17/2017 4:00:46 AM |
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cactus911
Lexington, KY
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Joe d was first to make 100k
And cup of cheer 50cents...like Tommy said cup was overpaid
ARE you sure that wasn't combined income of him @Marilyn ?
EVERYTHING I have ever read or heard says MICKEY MANTLE was the first to $100 k
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| 4/17/2017 5:22:19 AM |
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cupocheer
Assumption, IL
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I just came by to say hello, to:
Ted Williams -- Red Sox
and
Joe DiMaggio -- Yankees
both became the first two ballplayers to earn $100,000.00 dollars a year; in 1949.
The highest paid ball player before them was Babe Ruth at $50,000.00 in 1947.
With endorsements, etcetera, these men were quite hefty wage earners for their times.
When Babe Ruth was given a raise from $50,000.00 to $80,000.00 a year he was told he earned more that President Wilson. Ruth quipped, "I've had a better year."
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| 4/17/2017 11:51:18 AM |
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tommy8345
Raleigh, NC
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I've been on baseball-reference and I found DiMaggio made 100 grand in 49. Mantle in 63, Aaron in 70, 200 grand by 72, Mays by 66. DiMaggio must be the first one. The Yankees always had the best attendance and they certainly could have afforded it. Banks never did make 100! My vote goes for DiMaggio.
Give that man called driver a prize!
Joe DiMaggio was indeed the first MLB player to make $100,000.
When you add to that the income that Marilyn Monroe was making it was a pretty darn good family income for that time.
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| 4/24/2017 7:29:16 AM |
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cupocheer
Assumption, IL
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| 5/30/2017 12:20:35 AM |
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driver406
Saint Paul, MN
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Me? 1961 for sure. Remember when it was very rare to use 4 pitchers in a game? It's common to use 5 or 6 a night now with a guy coming in to get only one batter out. And I sure liked it better when the game was on a big AM station rather than some obscure FM nobody listens to except for the game.
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| 6/21/2017 5:57:16 AM |
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cupocheer
Assumption, IL
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