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Originally Posted by Seven
I'd feel comfortable giving 800 Million to Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays or Ted Williams. That of course assumes they manage to put up the same numbers they did in their respective primes  |
So it’s no longer about reaching the top of the mountain?
Mantle = 7 WS wins
Mays = 1 WS wins
Williams = 0 WS wins
In 1930 Ruth made $80,000. Adjusted to 2024 $’s that’s $1,500,000 for playing a game. Damn good money from any perspective. Most of these guys wouldn’t make anything close in the real world.
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Originally Posted by John1941
Not really. In 2006 Neil deMause of Baseball Prospectus wrote an article called "Do High Salaries Lead to High Ticket Prices?" He found that the data showed that higher salaries do not lead to higher ticket prices: "in the first dozen years of free agency, as salaries more than tripled, ticket prices actually went down in inflation-adjusted dollars." Increased ticket prices after that point were due more to changes in stadiums than salaries.
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Will all due respect…. What a bunch of horse shit.