This day in baseball: Sandberg becomes baseball’s highest paid player
Posted: March 2, 2020 Filed under: 20th Century, This day in baseball | Tags: Baseball, Bobby Bonilla, Chicago Cubs, history, Major League Baseball, MLB, New York Mets, Ryne Sandberg, sports Leave a commentRyne Sandberg became the highest paid player in baseball when he signed a four-year contract extension worth $28.4 million with the Chicago Cubs on March 2, 1992. The contract eclipsed Bobby Bonilla’s five-year, $29 million contract with the Mets, signed just three months previous. Sandberg never got to enjoy the full sum promised by this contract, however, as he unexpectedly retired during the 1994 season, walking away from nearly $15.8 million of the record deal.
Quote of the day
Posted: September 9, 2019 Filed under: Quote of the day | Tags: Baseball, quotes, Ryne Sandberg, sports Leave a commentI love to play baseball. I’m a baseball player. I’ve always been a baseball player. I’m still a baseball player. That’s who I am.
~Ryne Sandberg
Ryne Sandberg’s Hall of Fame induction speech
Posted: October 9, 2015 Filed under: 21st Century | Tags: Baseball, Chicago Cubs, Major League Baseball, National Baseball Hall of Fame, Ryne Sandberg 2 CommentsRyne Sandberg’s Hall of Fame induction speech is arguably one of the best that I’ve listened to thus far. I particularly enjoyed his discussion of the proliferation of home runs in the game. Even I can’t deny that home runs are exciting, but small ball, in my opinion, is much more of an art form. Sandberg was inducted in to the Hall of Fame as a Cubs second baseman in 2005.
Quote of the day
Posted: August 9, 2014 Filed under: 21st Century, Quote of the day | Tags: Baseball, Major League Baseball, MLB, National Baseball Hall of Fame, quotes, Ryne Sandberg, sports Leave a commentThe reason I am here, they tell me, is that I played the game a certain way, that I played the game the way it was supposed to be played. I don’t know about that, but I do know this: I had too much respect for the game to play it any other way, and if there was there was a single reason I am here today, it is because of one word, respect. I love to play baseball. I’m a baseball player. I’ve always been a baseball player. I’m still a baseball player. That’s who I am.
~Ryne Sandberg, from his 2005 Hall of Fame induction speech
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Quote of the day
Posted: December 1, 2013 Filed under: Quote of the day | Tags: Baseball, quotes, Ryne Sandberg, sports 2 CommentsI was taught you never, ever disrespect your opponent or your teammates or your organization or your manager and never, ever your uniform.
~Ryne Sandberg
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