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Topic History of: Kevin de Bruyne Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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Babe Ruth - The Bambino - was transferred 100 years ago today.
From the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees.
Perhaps baseball's most iconic player - who became an early superstar.
And certainly sport's first famous transfer.
Ruth earned over $1,000 a week...
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Barney |
You may well be right.
Barry Bonds, Joe DiMaggio, Willie Mays and Babe Ruth - are legends.
Or whatever ranks above that status.
They even changed how the American youth thought.
And what he/she wanted and desired.
All too often from ghettos, and areas of abject/unimaginable poverty - and living standards.
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JK2006 |
All eclipsed in quality, in my opinion, by Baseball. |
Barney |
Lucrative - yes!
The English Premier League earns £1.7 billion a year - in TV rights alone.
More than half a billion more than each of the top leagues in Germany, France and Spain!
With the possible exceptions of golf, F1 and tennis - no other sport generates as much income.
And those three sports have relatively few participants earning top dollar.
F1, maybe 20? The rest, the same. Football - 1000+.....
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Barney |
Sadio Mane*...not Sane
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