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This list does not reflect the highest annual salaries or career earnings, only the top 100 largest contracts and thus is largely limited to athletes in team sports and auto racing. Athletes in individual sports , such as golf , tennis , table tennis , boxing , kickboxing , and MMA , are not employed by a team and usually earn money primarily ...
Five of the twenty highest-paid players in 2013 were members of the Yankees. Their team payroll for 2013 was $228,835,490, roughly $12 million above the second-largest Los Angeles Dodgers. [12] The Yankees have drawn criticism for their payroll, with some claiming it undermines the parity of MLB.
Widely considered one of the greatest basketball players of all-time, LeBron James recently became the NBA’s highest paid player, too — he just signed a $97.1 million contract extension with ...
LEON DRAISAITL: Oilers' center becomes highest-paid NHL player with $112 million deal. Soccer. According to multiple reports, Cristiano Ronaldo is the highest-paid soccer player in the world with ...
This is a list of the highest-paid athletes in the world as ranked by Forbes magazine. 2024 list. The 2024 list: [1] Rank Name Sport Country Total Salary/winnings
Forbes’ “Highest paid athletes of 2020” could not be used as only one MLB player is included in the top 100. All data was collected and is up to date as of April 28, 2021.
By 1941, Hank Greenberg was the highest-paid player in baseball, earning $55,000 a season ($1,139,300 today). [8] Stan Musial's $80,000 a season ($917,900 today) was the highest in 1952, while young star Mickey Mantle earned $10,000 a season ($114,700 today). Musial, like Cobb, supplemented his income; he owned a restaurant.
For the MLB, data for the current 2020 season was used to determine the highest-paid player on each team in terms of payroll salary (MLB’s version of cap hit).