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...baseball's new millionaires last week, signing a four-year contract with the Philadelphia Phillies for about $3.5 million. That would make him, at $875,000 a year (or $5,400 a game during the regular season), the highest paid baseball player in history, surpassing San Francisco Pitcher Vida Blue, who reportedly could earn up to $800,000 next year. Rose also zooms past San Francisco's O.J. Simpson, the aristocrat of pro football ($733,358), and Denver's David Thompson, pro basketball's top banana...
...total of 65 free agents have signed contracts worth upwards of $60 million. Some teams have benefited, those that bid not only well but wisely. Spending some $10 million on free agents, the New York Yankees have received good value from the likes of Slugger Reggie Jackson, Pitcher Catfish Hunter and Fireball Reliever Rich Gossage. But in general the free agents have not scrambled the standings; the strong are still strong, the weak still weak...
...sign, plus $325,000 a year guaranteed, plus some incentive payments geared to the growth of sales and profits. Last year Bergerac collected $794,000. The deal for a while caused the financial press to call Bergerac by the spectacularly inappropriate nickname of "Catfish," after Catfish Hunter, the pitcher whom the Yankees signed to another seven-figure contract at about the same time. Oddly, in Brussels, Bergerac presented himself as an American executive called Mike; back in the U.S. he is referred to as Michel, which seems more appropriate for a cosmetics king...
Luis Tiant, former pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, signed a two-year contract with the New York Yankees yesterday...
Tiant, 38, entered the free-agent draft when the Red Sox management refused to offer him anything more than a one-year contract, because of his age. The herky-jerky motioned pitcher was not selected until the eighth round and by only one team--the Yanks...