T206 Wagner reoffered???

[whitehse]

Originally Posted by nat

By the end of this season Neshek will have earned $23m playing baseball.

Say that he looses half of that to taxes and agents. He's down to $11.5m. So he bid about 5% of his net life-time earnings on that card. Anyone here ever bid 5% of their net life-time earnings on a single card?

Of course I suspect that he bid far more than 5% of the cash that he's got on-hand. If he's anything like most young people who suddenly come into money, a considerable part of that $11.5m was probably spent on fast cars and the like.

Now that I think of it, somebody should take him up on that twitter thing, get an auto, and ask him what his monster number is.

When I worked in MLB the players received about 85K per year as part of the licensing agreement with the Players association. Now I worked in MLB nearly 30 years ago and I have zero doubt the players cut of the licensing is considerably higher per year than the 85K. Add into the fact that they are paid to wear shoes and equipment and receive money from various other outlets, more than likely this might be his "extra" money from these endorsements he is using to purchase the Wagner. These guys make way more money besides their yearly salary!