Major League Baseball Salaries: How Much is Too Much? Essay -- Argumen

major League baseball game Salaries How Much is Too Much? Twenty-five cardinal dollars made per year. Over one hundred fifty-four constant of gravitation dollars made per stake. Over forty-seven thousand dollars earned per at bat. Sounds a little ridiculous, does it not? That is what current Texas Ranger shortstop Alex Rodriguez earns to play the game of baseball (azcentral.com). baseball game is a game that children have been playing in schoolyards and fields for the past one hundred years. It may not be a game anymore. On the Major League level it has become a business. This is where the problem starts. Others associated with baseball do not see any problem. All businesses are entitle to the best employees they can afford. If the owner wishes to pay larger salaries, then he/she is at liberty to do this because he/she is in charge of the operations of the business. Baseball is no different. If New York Yankees owner, George Steinbrenner, choos es to spend $125 million on players salaries each year, who pull up stakes stop him? If Minnesota Twins owner, Carl Pohlad, decides to only spend $25 million on players salaries, who tells him to spend more? The answer of course is nobody, because baseball is a business. Each franchise is run by an individual owner who makes the business decisions. Compared to ample ago, baseball has transformed from being the sport people have a passion for to an egotistical business of super-agents and ten million dollar players (azcentral.com). This essay will introduce the situation that Major League Baseball is in with regards to its players salaries. It will also describe how the salaries escalating at the rate they are is hurting the game overall by pushing the fans awa... ...ball itself.Works CitedHolahan, William L, Kroncke, Charles O. A Pedagogical Note on Baseball Stadium Economics Show Me the Money Social Studies Jan/Feb 2003 44-45Rosenthal, Ken. Look What Happened to the big(a) Boys. Sporting News 14 Oct. 2002 47-48Stein, Lisa. Lets Play Hardball. US News and World Report 15 Apr. 2002 14Twenty-five Highest Paid Major League Baseball Players. 12 May 2002. Arizona Republic. 25 March 2003 http//www.azcentral.com/sports/diamondbacks/ top25salaries2002.htmlVerducci, Tom. Conspiracy Theory. Sports Illustrated 10 Jan. 2003 22Wilson-Smith, Anthony. The Unsporting Life. MacLeans 17 Feb. 2003 4Baseball Salaries Database. 11 November 2002. USA Today. 25 March 2003 http//asp.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/salaries/default.aspxKurson, Ken. The Baseball Fallacies. Esquire April 2001 110