Ty Cobb: Baseball's first $10,000 player
Ty Cobb set many records in his Hall of Fame career. One of them was to be the first player to garner a reliably reported five-figure salary. (NATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME LIBRARY, COOPERSTOWN, N.Y.)
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