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john h
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john h asked in Education & ReferenceTrivia · 1 decade ago

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

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  • curtisports2
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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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.

  • Jack is Lord
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

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

    Source(s): baseball-almanac.com
  • sd3r
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    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.

  • Adoptive Father
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Babe Ruth?

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