who was the 1st player to make a million dollars per year?

Question

by the way, i know the answer to every question i ask from my own vast knowledge, not from looking it up on the freakin computer. the bar has been raised, people....can anyone match me in baseball knowledge??? i doubt it.

Answer 1

you're a smart a-- stop saying stuff like that!!!

Answer 2

This is raising the bar??? Nolan Ryan in 1980...puhlease.

After your subsequent post I had to go look it up...Ryan signed the first Million dollar per season contract on 11/19/79, 3 years... $3.5M

Answer 3

Nolan Ryan was 1st to officially receive a million dollar baseball contract, however it is rumored a year earlier Dave Parker, received over a million dollars in a season dure to contract incentives

Answer 4

Dave Parker, in 1979. But the contract was worded in such a way that it didn't appear to be $1,000,000 a year, but it was.

In 1980 Nolan Ryan became the first player to have a contract that said outright the salary was $1,000,000 a year.

Answer 5

since you really didn't say first baseball player the answer is Bobby Orr. he was the first to make a million a year in sports

Answer 6

I remember there was big stink about Fernando Valenzuela getting 1mil a year or so after he started playing for the Dodgers, so I'm guessing it was him.

Answer 7

I'm pretty sure it is Nolan Ryan. I remember reading about it in high school.

Answer 8

Nolan Ryan, right?

Answer 9

CATFISHHUNTERSIGNED WITH THE YANKEES FOR 1.5 MILLION DOLLARS

Answer 10

ty comb i think or it was a black guy i cant remember but i know who it is