Wouldn't it be great to make 31.3 million dollars a year and an additional 47
million dollars in endorsements simply to play a game?
Professional Sports - Athletes do Not Deserve What they are Paid Argumentative Persuasi... - 0 views
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Michael Jordan made 170,000 dollars a day
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Mike Tyson's earnings in his match with Peter McNeeley. In a single second, he made 281,000 dollars
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Are baseball players paid too much? - by Timothy Moreland - Helium - 1 views
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Imagine a job in which the employees could make ten, even twenty, million dollars every year.
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Every player on a baseball team affects the income of the owner of the team, most notably in local revenue. Local revenue includes "gate receipts, local television, radio and cable rights fees, ballpark concessions, local advertising, sponsorship and publications, parking, suite rentals, postseason revenue, and spring training revenues
Yankee Stadium Seating and Pricing | yankees.com: Ballpark - 1 views
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Wheelchair accessible seating in Sections 114A and 127A is $100 for Full Season price, $110 for 41-Game/20-Game/Partial Season price, $125 for advance price and $150 for game-day price.
Why Do Baseball Players Make So Much? - CBS Sunday Morning - CBS News - 2 views
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Baseball plays out from one end of the country to the other — from one end of the lifespan to the other. It’s a game, a sport and a pastime.
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It’s a game, a sport and a pastime.
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it is a $6 billion a year business where the extraordinary skill and talent of the best reaps once unimaginable rewards. The minimum wage in major league baseball is almost $400,000 more than half the players make $1 million or more. New York Yankees’ third baseman Alex Rodriguez takes in $25 million — some 500 times what a teacher or a cop or a paramedic makes.
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Points of View Reference Center Home: Counterpoint: Salary Caps Should Be Abolished in ... - 0 views
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Professional athletes should be allowed to freely compete for salaries, and should be allowed to earn what they are worth to the teams’ owners
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Permitting salary caps gives the team owners too much artificial control over the players’ salaries, and may unfairly limit the salaries of non-"superstar" players.
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Points of View Reference Center Home: Salary Caps: An Overview - 0 views
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Professional sports are often perceived as one of the last true bastions of capitalism, where player salaries are constrained only by what the market will bear.
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Since an increasingly high percentage of league revenues are generated by television contracts and merchandising rather than ticket sales, leagues have a significant interest in ensuring that nationally televised matchups are usually competitive contests
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Installing a salary cap links players’ salaries to league revenues, arguably ensuring greater competition and cost certainty (controlling the amount of revenue and compensation a player receives).
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