Sport: One treasurer's report

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Are athletes making too much money? they wanted to know. Are high salaries ruining sport? With first basemen earning $250,000 a year, can anarchy be far behind? I had been traveling. Boston. Minneapolis. Pittsburgh. Toronto. Fort Worth. The landscape and the weather and the accents changed. The theme of the questions persisted. Money.

A long time ago, Robert Frost said he disliked college because the professors not only knew the answers but knew the questions. The old man understood media truth when media were still referred to as the press. Questions, not answers, preside....

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