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Mookie Betts/Francisco Lindor: Tale of Two Cities "forced" to trade stars. Wednesday, February 5, 2020
Rich man/rich man.
Rich city/poor city.
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Salaries: sluggers before free agency 1920-1976. First of a series. Sunday, March 7, 2021
The annual salaries of the twelve sluggers below will be displayed and to some extent analyzed. One slugger is not in the Hall of Fame: Roger Maris. Maris is included so that his salaries can be compared to his Yankee teammate Mickey Mantle.
The original intent was to compare Mantle, Mays, Aaron. This was gradually expanded as other rivalries presented. The final regular season for any of these sluggers was 1976, which means their careers ended before the emergence of the powerful modern players union and just as free agency had started.
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Salaries: Mantle, Mays, Aaron. Sunday, March 14, 2021
Annual salaries in this series are from https://www.baseball-reference.com/:
Salaries may not be complete (especially pre-1985) and may not include some earned bonuses ...
This link has complete data on the sluggers profiles in this series.
General conclusions:
Mays was paid more than Mantle.
Aaron eventually passes Mays.
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Salaries: Mantle and Maris, the M & M Boys of 1961. Monday, March 15, 2021
Following the 1960 and 1961 seasons, Maris received these percentage increases:
1960: 77.78%
1961: 118.75%
So for the 1962 season their salaries were:
Mantle: $90,000 (28.5% more than Maris)
Maris: $70,000 (22% less than Mantle)
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Salaries: Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, Yankee teammates. Tuesday, March 16, 2021
Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, Yankee teammates 1923-1934, had the first great home run race in 1927. They were tied in early September at 45. Ruth broke his own season record of 59 set in 1921 by hitting 60. Gehrig stalled and finished with 47, the highest total by anyone other than Ruth through 1927...
Ruth had multiple multi-year contracts, which explains his same salary for multiple consecutive years. Gehrig was aggressive on the field but timid in negotiations.
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Salaries: DiMaggio, Williams, Musial: first paid $100,000. Wednesday, March 17, 2021
Ted Williams was the top hitter almost every full season he played. Williams is the most recent and likely the last to have a .400 batting average for a qualifying season: .406 in 1941.
Joe DiMaggio had his 56 game hitting streak in 1941 and was voted MVP over Williams as DiMaggio's Yankees won the American League pennant. DiMaggio was regarded as the greatest all player of his era. In 1969 DiMaggio was voted the greatest living player...
Stan Musial was the man in the National League. He hit five home runs in a doubleheader but never led the league in home runs.
All three played for only one team: Red Sox, Yankees, Cardinals respectively.
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Salaries: Babe Ruth and Mickey Mantle compared to teammates. Wednesday, March 31, 2021
Babe Ruth and Mickey Mantle are compared to teammates in descending order of annual salaries...
Only Mantle's seasons as the highest paid Yankee will be compared to Ruth, so the Babe has 15 and Mantle 11.
Remember, salary changes reflect performance in the previous season for Mantle who had 18 one year contracts. Ruth had several multi-year contracts, which is why his salary stays the same for some consecutive years...
Tables below show the Yankees teammates needed to equal or exceed that salary of the highest paid Yankee each year in these decades, which cover Ruth and Mantle: 1920s, 1930s, 1950s, 1960s...
In 1927 it took 6 Yankees to exceed Ruth's salary. Mantle never has such Yankee salary dominance.
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