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NEW YORK (AP) — These days, a
$2 mil I ion baseball player is just average.
Just eight years after the average
salary broke the million-dollar mark, it
nearly reached $2 million on opening
day, falling just short at $1,988,034, ac
cording to a study of all major league
contracts by the Associated Press.
“I don’t know if it is negative or
positive for the game,” New York
Mets catcher Mike Piazza said. “It re
wards guys with talent who have
worked hard all their lives, rode the
buses in the minors and now are get
ting paid very well for what they do.”
When Piazza first came up to the
major leagues in 1993, he made
$126,000. This year, he’s making
$12,071,429, and that only puts him
sixth.
Dodgers pitcher Kevin Brown is
No. I at $15,714,286, only slightly
less than the $16,519,500 the Min
nesota Twins are paying their entire
roster.
Arizona pitcher Randy Johnson is
second at $13.35 million, followed by
Baltimore outfielder Albert Belie
($12,868,670), New York Yankees
outfielder Bernie Williams
($12,357,143) and Colorado outfielder
Larry Walker ($12,142,857).
Belle had been No. 1 the previous
three seasons.
Cincinnati’s Ken Griffey Jr. is only
19th at $9,329,700, which includes $7
million in salary, $625,000 as the re
maining share of the signing bonus
from his Seattle contract and
$1,704,700, which represents the 2000
value of $5.5 million in deferred pay
ments. While Cincinnati gave Griffey
a $116.5 million, nine-year contract,
$57.5 million is deferred and won’t
even start earning interest until 2009.
“If the salaries continue to escalate
and you don’t have revenues that
come close to staying even, then
you’re in trouble, and that’s where we
are,” said Diamondbacks owner Jerry
Colangelo, who pays Johnson every
two weeks. ‘‘1 don’t think anyone
could say it’s a healthy sign. There
needs to be a change in the economic
system. That’s just clear and distinct.”
The average went up 15.6 percent
from $1,720,050, nearly as much as
the 19.3 percent increase last season.
Salaries have increased 85.6 per
cent from the end of the 1994-95,
when the average was $1,071,029 on
opening day. The NBA average is
$3.5 million this season, and the NHL
average was $1,297,000 in 1998-99,
the last season for which figures are
available. In the recently completed
season, NFL players averaged
$1,043,000.
“It’s just part of revenue,” Texas
shortstop Royce Clayton said. “When
they’re selling organizations for more
than $300 million, that’s a lot of mon
ey and a lot of wealth to be spread
around. It’s not greed; we are not try
ing to take more than what’s in the
pot. It’s in the pot, so we just distrib
ute it however they feel each player’s
worth is.”
The New York Yankees, at
$92,538,260, have the highest payroll
for the second straight year, followed
by Los Angeles ($88.1 million), At
lanta ($84.5 million), Baltimore ($81.4
million) and Arizona ($81 million).
Last year, all eight playoff teams
were among the top 10 spenders. If
that holds this year, the cutoff would
be Tampa Bay, 10th at $62.7 million.
However, trades and other roster
moves and performance bonuses
change payrolls during the season, and
St. Louis, Colorado, the Chicago Cubs,
Seattle and Detroit all have payrolls
between $58 million and $62 million.
The Yankees’ payroll is nearly six
times the size of Minnesota’s. Also
The rising cost of baseball talent
Opening day average salaries in Major League Baseball.
Team payrolls
Highest
N Y. Yankees $92,538,260
Los Angeles 88,124,286
Atlanta 84,537,836
Baltimore 81,447,435
Arizona 81,027,833
Note: Figures were obtained from management and player sources and include salaries and
pro-rated shares of signing bonuses. In some cases, parts of salaries deferred without
interest are discounted to reflect present-day values.
Lowest
Minnesota $16,519,500
Florida 20,072,000
Kansas City 23,433,000
Pittsburgh 28,928,333
Chicago White Sox 31,133,500
Source: Compiled from AP wire reports
near the bottom are Florida ($20.1
million), Kansas City ($23.4 million)
and Pittsburgh-($28.9 million).
The number of players at $1 million
or more rose from 348 to 377, 44.8
percent of the 840 players on opening-
day rosters and disabled lists. Those at
$2 million rose from 254 to 277.
At the top of the scale, the number
of players making $9 million or more
doubled to 20.
The median salary — the point at
which an equal number of players are
above and below — was $750,000, up
from $700,000 last year and $275,000
at the end of the strike.
Those at the $200,000 minimum,
which is higher than the average prior
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to 1982, dropped from 68 to 46.
“Sure it’s a lot of money,” Texas
first baseman David Segui said. “But
look, the stadiums are full and look at
the money they are making off televi
sion. The industry generates that kind
of revenue and without the players,
who’s going to watch? Joe Blow can’t
play at this level.”
Contract figures were obtained by
the AP from various player and man
agement sources and include a play
er’s 1999 salary plus a prorated share
of any signing bonus or guaranteed in
come not attributed to a specific year.
Portions of salaries deferred without
interest are discounted to present-day
value. '
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LEVEL CROSS, N.C. (AP) — Lee Petty, winner
of the first Daytona 500 and patriarch of one of stock
car racing’s royal families, died Wednesday at 86.
He died at Moses Cone Hospital in Greensboro
several weeks after surgery for a stomach aneurysm.
Petty was the father of Winston Cup great
Richard Petty, grandfather of Kyle Petty and great
grandfather of Adam Petty, who made his Winston
Cup debut last weekend in Texas.
Lee Petty was one of the princes of racing during
the stock car circuit’s infancy in the 1940s and 1950s.
“There wasn’t any better driver than Lee Petty in
his day,” Junior Johnson, another early stock car
star, said Wednesday. “There might have been more
colorful drivers, but when it came down to winning
the race, he had as much as anyone I’ve ever seen.”
Beginning with an eight-race schedule in 1949
— the same year he founded what became Petty En
terprises — he went on to win 55 races. He was a
three-time champion on what now is the Winston
Cup circuit. He won the inaugural Daytona 500 in
1959, driving a 1959 Oldsmobile ’88 bearing his
trademark No. 42.
In Level Cross, home of Petty Enterprises, the
No. 42 flag fiew at half staff Wednesday.
“He was a great guy. You never would know he
was who he was,” said Jean Handy, a service station
assistant manager.
Petty and his wife lived in the same simple white
frame home at Petty Enterprises, next to the race
shop and museum, where they raised sons Richard
and Maurice.
“They are tight, a real family,” said Doris Gam
mons, who works at the Richard Petty Museum.
“They are just plain, simple country people.”
Richard Petty began racing under his father’s
tutelage in 1958 and eventually surpassed his fa
ther’s Grand National championships. Along the
way, he inherited his father’s fierce competitive
streak.
During Richard Petty’s first race at a North Car
olina dirt track in 1959, when it initially appeared he
had beaten his father, the elder Petty protested loud
ly. Race officials later changed their ruling and de
clared Lee Petty the winner.
“I would have protested even if it was my moth
er,” Lee Petty said.
Petty’s best season was 1959, when he beat John
ny Beauchamp at Daytona in a photo finish that
wasn’t decided for three days.
His 55 wins placed him seventh on the list of
the winningest drivers in NASCAR Winston Cup
history. Richard Petty ranks first with 200.
Johnson said Lee Petty adopted a businesslike
approach to racing when the sport was rougher than
it is now.
“We never had anything vicious on the track,”
Johnson said. “If he could get in a hole, he got in it.
... When the race was over, he hooked up and went
home.”
While serious about racing, Petty could also be a
gentleman, Ned Jarrett said.
“He was a hero of mine,” said Jarrett, a fonner
Grand National champion who recalled a 1959 race
in Columbia, S.C., when he was filling in for the ail
ing Johnson in a No. 11 Ford.
After getting a feel for the car, Jarrett began
moving up in the pack, and soon found himself be
hind Petty on the one-groove dirt track.
“I bothered him for 10 or so laps,” Jarrett re
called. “I tried everything in the world to get past
him, and I finally bumped him.”
Jarrett finished second, but found Petty waiting
for him at the pay window.
“He said, ‘Boy, were you driving that car Num
ber 11?’ I said, ‘Yes, sir.’ He said, ‘You need to
learn your manners on the race track; you don’t run
over people to pass them.’”
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