The first MLB player to earn $1 million per year was Nolan Ryan in 1979. I haven't been able to find the NBA & NFL players as of yet.
w chamberlain
a superstar can make 4-5 million dollars a year
The first football player to make a million dollars a year was Joe Namath. In 1969, Namath signed a three-year contract with the New York Jets that paid him a total of $3 million, making him the highest-paid player in football at the time.
David Robinson with 5.74 million dollars.
About 87 million dollars. No wonder our economy is crashing.
The average salary for a basketball player is 5.15 million dollars. The average salary for a football player is 14 million dollars.
FOOTBALL! They have a large number of players with over $75 million dollar contracts!
If you are really good in football for example like Peyton Manning he gets paid about 25 million dollars. That's if your good, but if you an average player than the average salary would be about 500,000 to 2 million dollars. Unless if your sponsored by Nike or something. But in basketball you get paid much more because if your good like Lebron James, he gets about 80 million dollars. An average player in the NBA would get about 5 million to 10 million depends on how much time your on the court.
baseball, basketball, football, and nascar ________________________________________________________________________ This is a bit of a subjective question that will vary by personal preference but I will do my best to take my own feelings out of my answer. 1) Football, be it college or NFL many Americans worship at the alter of the pigskin first and foremost. 2) Basketball, March Madness is a billion dollar industry and the NBA is at an almost all-time high popularity with the bevy of stars in today's game. 3) Baseball, it's called America's Game for a reason. 4) Hockey, with the emergence of stars such as Ovechkin, Crosby, and Ryan Miller after his exhilarating Olympic performance has people becoming interested again in the first major sport to cancel a season.
80.5 Million Dollars.
Like 21 Million dollars.
The average salary for a Basketball player in Germany is, in U.S. dollars, $2 Million.
5 million dollars
w chamberlain
the first baseball game to gross a million dollars was the Yankee's versus the braves in 1965
it would be worth 1.2 million dollars
Number Uno(Big Suprise):NFL $984.5 Million Dollars Number Duos: English Premier League $513 Million Dollars Number Three: MLB $496 Million Dollars Number Four: Formula One(European Grand Prix) $435 Million Number Five: NBA $207 Million Dollars (Golf wasn't even on the list but it is estimated to be pretty low) http://www.askmen.com/sports/business_200/218_sports_business.html