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Tuesday’s Question: Who was the first professional baseball player to sign a million dollar a year contract?

Posted on September 18, 2017 by Kat Walters

On Nov. 19, 1979 the Astros signed him to a four-year, $4.5 million free agent contract. As a sign of changing times, the deal made him the highest-paid player in baseball history and the game’s first million-dollar-a-year man.

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