re: #347 HappyWarrior

My favorite era of my favorite sports intrestingly enough was in the days when the athletes were more or less regular guys. Babe Ruth was actually a trained tailor. A lot of people don’t know that.

I studied sports history and the like while working for Gary K Walker, the manager who negotiated one of the first million-dollar-a-year contracts in baseball history for Reggie Jackson.

And until the late 70’s, most professional athletes made rather modest salaries and many of them had to take regular jobs outside the season.