Remember When: Dick Allen's $250K Highest in MLB, $15K Minimum Pay

Baseball Library records The 25th and 27th of February, 35 years ago, marked two groundbreaking events which have served to shape fiscal and economic reality in contemporary baseball. The former date being the root for the evolution of MLB salary arbitration and free agency. The latter date in 1973 made Dick Allen baseball's highest paid player having received a 3 year, $250,000 per year deal from the Chicago White Sox.