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CapI think you have players that believe that baseball is a job and those who enjoy the history of the game.
I think both Schilling and Wells 'get it' and kind find a fascination to the old days of baseball. On a YES baseball show, Wells took you through his personal collection of signed baseballs and he showed off a team ball signed with Josh Gibson, a few scattered Babe Ruth Balls and more. He has them all in cubes and piled to the ceiling in a display.
I was talking to a friend of mine who is a baseball player and he was telling me about how he estimates that 30% of the club collects baseball cards and was telling me how one player had just purchased a PSA9 Pete Rose 1963 for like $6K. This player makes $9 Million a year and if you break it down, that's roughly $25K a day (probably less than half that with taxes and agent's cut), but still.
Cap
Well, I quit my job so I could work alone, Then I changed my name to Sherlock Holmes- Bob Dylan.