Entries from October 2008

October 26, 2008

On Salaries in Baseball

The following was a satirical essay I wrote last year.
$28 million. With that kind of money, you could buy 605 Chevrolet Corvettes, almost two mansions the size of John W. Henry’s Brookline monstrosity, 14 million bottles of Coca-Cola from over-expensive Boston vending machines, or one year of Alex Rodriguez. Boston slugger Manny Ramirez made $21 [...]