re: #83 lawhawk

For most of baseball’s history until after the 1960s, pro sports players had to take outside jobs to make ends meet. Mickey Mantle made $100k as a player for the Yankees. His was the exception, rather than the rule. It was large sum to be sure, but most other players during that era made a whole lot less. Pee Wee Reese made at most $35k. Most scrambled for money after the season ended.

Was that also not about the time that increases in executive salaries started outstripping those of workers by a factor of 100 to one?