I used to work for a sports card collectibles magazine. We would bring in old timer baseball/football players to sign autographs. This was my first year out of college and I made $18k at that full time job. One time we brought in Willie Mays and all he did for 3 hours was female dog about how he never made any money compared to these new guys and how he paved the road for them. This went on for 3 hours, it was darn near unbearable. Poor Willie was paid $50k for those 3 hours. Pete Rose was equally as miserable (he was only paid 30k
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The good news is that Ernie Banks, Harmon Killebrew, John Stallworth, and a few others were some of the nicest folks you will ever meet.