Posted by Anne Onymous on Fri, 08/22/2003 - 12:49pm.
Archived comment by marinerd:
One more point you may have overlooked. Every baseball player up until a few decades ago had regular jobs in the off-season. When the baseball season ended, they all went to work. So I think the idea that they had nothing else to turn to is not true. And also, it's not like they were working for free. They did get paid, even if it wasn't as much as they could have gotten with another team. There were no starving children involved.
One more point you may have overlooked. Every baseball player up until a few decades ago had regular jobs in the off-season. When the baseball season ended, they all went to work. So I think the idea that they had nothing else to turn to is not true. And also, it's not like they were working for free. They did get paid, even if it wasn't as much as they could have gotten with another team. There were no starving children involved.