Imagine how incredibly entertaining Frank Sinatra’s Instagram would be if he were in his prime today.
Can you fathom how many times Babe Ruth would be on TMZ, leaving a Manhattan bar with a buzz after hitting a couple home runs in a game that night.
Forget that, how much money would these two larger than life icons be making in modern day sports and entertainment…
The highest paid Major League Baseball player back when the sport was invented pulled down a cool $2,500 per year. His hame was Harry Wright. He played for the Cincinnati Reds in the 1970’s.
Mike Trout of the Los Angeles Angels has a 12 year, $420 million contract.
Times have changed.
How about the most famous and accomplished baseball player of all time, the great Babe Ruth of the New York Yankees. In 1922 he was pulling down $52,000. Nothing great, considering it would only translate to roughly $800,000 today.
Ruth started his career making $600 per year. A modern-day MLB player makes that in meal money in two days now.
In 1930, Ruth made $80,000 for the Yankees, which was $5,000 more than President Herbert Hoover made in the White House. When asked about it, Ruth responded with the classic line, “I know, but I had a better year than Hoover.”
Ruth’s total earnings during his legendary career was $785,900. That would translate into $15,135, 828. Half a year’s salary now for elite MLB stars.
Another guy that would be swimming in cash if he were alive in this era is Frank Sinatra. His net worth was roughly $600 million when he died, but he was so popular, so successful, and so multi-talented that he was pulling down millions per year for decades.
Imagine Frank in his prime in the 2000’s. He’d pull $20 million per movie, $50 million per tour, and another $10 million on private shows.
And if he was pitching products and appearing in commercials overseas, he’d make eight figures doing that every year.
And is there even a question if he’d have his own line of Bourbon? And champagne!
Sinatra would be worth multiple billions if he was born a generation or so later.
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