60 YEARS AGO TODAY:
2/11/66 – Willie Mays breaks his own record when he signs the biggest contract in baseball history (to that time) … $130,000 per year.
That works out to be the equivalent of about $1.3 million dollars today, a pittance of what a player of his caliper would REALLY be earning today. (Try more in the neighborhood of $40 million a year for the two-year deal that Mays signed on this date in 1966.)
