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10-13-2017, 07:18 PM
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The calculators do ignore a lot, because (as has been amply demonstrated here) inflation affects different goods at different rates. So you can't use the calculators to tell you what kind of a house Ruth could have bought. It's more like, if you bought a random assortment of stuff in 1934 how much would you expect the same random assortment of stuff to cost in 2017. Which you can't use for any precise purpose, but gets you a sort-of-rough idea about how far baseball paychecks used to go. And I take it that "a sort-of-rough idea" is good enough for government work, as well as for posts to baseball card websites.
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10-14-2017, 06:50 AM
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Jay- Dunlap in the large Gypsy Queen set?
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10-14-2017, 02:21 PM
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In the recently published book, "Boston's First Nine", the salaries are listed for the 1874 Boston Red Stockings. The highest paid players were Harry Wright , Spalding, and Barnes at $2000. Interestingly George Wright was only paid $1800 and Deacon White was one of the lowest paid players at $1350. Fergy Malone was very fortunate to have worked out a deal for his salary at such a high amount in 1874.
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