There is a story on MSN about Major League Baseball’s most overpaid and underpaid players. Of course, they’re all overpaid. Their meal allowance is more than most Americans earn 
in a day. But, comparing how much overpaid, say, Albert Pujols is to how much, say, Todd Helton (who?) is overpaid, there is a lot of injustice. You can’t really say, “Oh, poor Albert” about a guy whose base salary is $14,000,000 per year, but if Pujols makes $2,600,000 less than a guy I’ve never heard of, something ain’t right.
Of course, the whole thing ain’t right. My older brother at one time was a giant baseball collector, owning something like a quarter of a million baseball cards, including a Mantle rookie card. He became friends with a guy who had unlimited access to Busch Stadium in St. Louis, and through that connection managed to secure a lot of Cardinals memorabilia, including a box of original contracts of Cardinal greats in the 1960s – Bob Gibson, Mike Shannon, Ken Boyer, guys like that. Few of these superstars earned five figure incomes that year, and most were in the $5,000 to $8,000 range. Go figure.
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