5 million over 6 years for the Yankees?
             The pay just keeps rising and rising. Back in 1930 Babe Ruth was the highest paid baseball player ever at $80,000 for that year. In 1951 Joe DiMaggio was the highest paid player ever at $100,000. Then 25 years later Koufax and Drysdale put an end to the old way of doing things by having an agent negotiate a $1,000,000 deal to be split between the two of them. In the 80s Ryan got a million for himself. Then, within a five year span we had the first $50 million contract in baseball, the first $1
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