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Posted By: davidcycleback

I once saw the salaries. Ball players weren't rich by today's standards.
However, considering most came from lower class backgrounds(coal miners, factory
workers, etc), they made a good wage. Likely much more than they would have gotten
if they took a blue collar job back home. Folks like Cobb and Speaker made incomes
that made them upper class, making much more than the average doctor. Even knowing
today's salaries, the Cobbs and Speakers had nothing to gripe about.