Pay and value

I distinctly remember arguing with my father in the mid-sixties over the value of a baseball player.

At the time $125,000 per year was considered the threshold of greatness and it was only given to the game’s greatest, including Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, Ted Williams, Hank Aaron and Stan Musial.

With Shohei Ohtani signing a contract valued at $700,000,000 for ten years ($1.3 million/week), I’m wondering if that vindicates my conviction, once and for all, that people with special talents are truly priceless.

Or, was dad the perceptive one in his belief that athletes are grossly overpaid and nobody should earn more than the president of the United States.

Bob Ory

Elgin