Baseball Players Salaries
October 31st, 2005 | 
Author: Baseball Bob
Author: Baseball Bob
Are Astronomically High Player Salaries going to be the ruination of Baseball and/or other Pro Sports?
At what ticket price will you refuse to pay to attend a ball game?
The major sports are already taking a hit. More and more the younger generations are headed for the extreme sports such as the X games and the MMA. These sports are relatively inexpensinve and way cool.
Highest Player Salaries
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MLB 09 The Show $5.55 MLB 09 PS3… |
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MLB 09 The Show $19.99 MLB 09: The Show is back for the 2009 baseball season with all the authentic baseball action that baseball and video game fans have come to expect from the longest running officially licensed Major League Baseball game series on PlayStation platforms. The fourth game in the series, MLB 09 also includes a wealth of new features such as Road to the Show 3.0, Franchise Mode 2.0, Online Season Leagues… |
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Puresim Baseball 2007 $19.99 PureSim Baseball 2007 is one of the top baseball simulations on the market, with unparalleled accuracy and an extraordinary number of options. PureSim Baseball 2007 includes improved graphics, new sounds, animated ball flight, multiple levels of minors (A, AA, AAA), faster simulation speeds, an improved AI, improved templates for faster Association creation, and an improved play-by-play display. T… |
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Backyard Baseball 2003 $19.99 Infogrames has improved upon an already excellent franchise with Backyard Baseball 2003. We hope this software doesn’t become a victim of its own success: the Backyard Kids are getting so good, it’s only a matter of time before they start demanding astronomical salaries and brand-new stadiums. The pace, strategy, and statistics involved in baseball make it a sport that translates easily to the … |
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Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game $15.95 “One of the best baseball-and management-books out….Deserves a place in the Baseball Hall of Fame.”-ForbesMoneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball. Following the low-budget Oakland Athletics, their larger-than-life general manger, Billy Beane, and the strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts, Michael Lewis has written not only “the single most influential baseball bo… |
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Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant ‘Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big $5.00 When Jose Canseco burst into the Major Leagues in the 1980s, he changed the sport — in more ways than one. No player before him possessed his mixture of speed and power, which allowed him to become the first man in history to belt more than forty home runs and swipe more than forty bases in the same season. He won Rookie of the Year, Most Valuable Player, and a World Series ring. Canseco shattere… |
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Clearing the Bases: Juiced Players, Monster Salaries, Sham Records, and a Hall of Famer’s Search for the Soul of Baseball $5.89 Clearing the Bases is a much-needed call to arms by one of baseball’s most respected players. Drawing on his experiences as a third baseman, a manager, and, most recently, a fan, Mike Schmidt takes on everything from skyrocketing payrolls, callous owners, and unapproachable players to inflated statistics, and, of course, ersatz home run kings. But Schmidt’s book goes beyond the Balco investigat… |