Who was the first athlete in team sports to earn 6 figures?

curtisports22010-02-02T18:08:24Z

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Joe DiMaggio was the first ballplayer to earn $100,000 in a season, in 1949. Ted Williams got a $125,000 contract a year later.

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Jack is Lord2010-02-04T01:37:41Z

Hank Greenberg earned 100,000 dollars for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1947, the first athlete to earn that much money.

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sd3r2010-02-02T11:20:42Z

i'll go with Edison Arantes do Nascimentoin (Pele).
1963 Pele was earning $150,000 as the top paid athlete in the world after Santos was offered $1,000,000 by an Italian team to buy his contract.

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Adoptive Father2010-02-02T11:13:27Z

Babe Ruth?

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