paying customers, and they like to watch the games. Then though, I could eat for a week on what they are charging to get into Wrigley Field with good seats for one game. If you will step back with me in time for a moment you will understand why I am so concerned about this issue about over paid athletes. In the forties each player was paid fairly but not extravagantly. "When I joined the Cardinals ball club in 1943 we were paid fifteen dollars for each game".(Harig) Back then the players had other jobs to help them make ends meat. They just played the game on the side and on the weekends for extra cash. Other sports have the same problems, take professional basketball. Michael Jordan is the greatest man to ever walk across the hard wood floors of professional basketball, but to be paid $63 million in one season is almost sickening. Jordan has so much power when it comes to the NBA, that he is able to drop out of the National Basketball League and start playing baseball. Then when he was tired of baseball, the Bulls begged and pleaded for him to come back to their team. That just doesn't seem right and fair to me, especially to other players in the NBA. He may be the greatest basketball player ever, but in my books he doesn't have a lot of character and integrity. "Jordan made sixty three million last year and the closest man to him was Patrick Ewig; who made twenty mi...
