Comments on: Life-Changing Contracts for the Young Players

By: Flavor

Flavor — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 04:09:44 +0000

gamer babe for sure. We went to high school together, she’s 2 years younger than me. She married her high school sweetheart, how often does that ever work?
They’re both happily married with 2 kids, all 4 are major Giants and Niner fans…..

By: salty

salty — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 03:44:05 +0000

Terrific read!

By: dirtnrocksnomo

dirtnrocksnomo — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 03:09:22 +0000

$925,000? If I had that kinda a dough why I would buy a……….townhouse in Mountain View.

By: Bozo

Bozo — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 02:26:31 +0000

By the way Flav, your friend Jordana is a good looking Giants fan.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 01:45:56 +0000

Interesting read about early contract battles “The Fight over Napolean Lajoie”. Nap tried to jump from the Phils after the 1900 season when he found out that his roomie, Ed Delahanty was getting 600 bucks over the $ 2400 cap under the table, 400 more than Nap was getting. Lajoie demanded the 400, the Phillies refused and the battle was on…
http://tinyurl.com/a25opjm

By: Flavor

Flavor — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 00:22:24 +0000

In 1900, players were paid a flat fee of $2400 per year. I was actually surprised by the number, I thought it would be less

By: blade3colorado

blade3colorado — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 22:27:33 +0000

I love your post Flav! Absolutely agree that the deals that Arias and Blanco received are “life changing.” I couldn’t be happier for both of them.

By: snarkk

snarkk — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 20:27:35 +0000

I didn’t see anything wrong with it. It worked once in a blue moon. Just another idiosyncratic thing that made baseball what it is, and they’re taking it away, IMO…

By: twinfan1

twinfan1 — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 20:24:35 +0000

This is why I really don’t like Zeke watching baseball. He’s never falling for the fake stick toss again. Sports can affect our daily lives in so many many ways..

By: twinfan1

twinfan1 — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 20:09:16 +0000

The gap wasn’t as big as now, but the guys still had it pretty good in 1900. A carpenter worked a 48 hour week at 37 cents an hour. A schoolteacher made a little over 300 bucks a year…of course, Gregor and Jouaquin would have been very unlikely to play here at the turn of the 20th century. Latinos did play in the bigs, a very very few- there’s some debate on when and who the pioneeer was- most seem to think that it was Columbian Luis “Jud” Castro in 1902. He played several years in the minors before and after his 1902 season with Philly.After baseball, he fell on hard times, and eventually passed away on September 24, 1941. Louis Castro died at Manhattan State Hospital, a psychiatric facility on Wards Island, at the age of 64. He was buried at Mount St. Mary’s Cemetery in Flushing, Queens.

Famous First Foreign Born Baseball Players:
http://tinyurl.com/akwnr