Thursday, November 24, 2011

How much were baseball players paid for using their photos and history on tobacco cards in the early 1900's?

Throughout history, sports celebs have been paid fees to appear on cards - candy, tobacco, bubble gum. In the early 1900's it was tobacco and cigarettes (called Tobacco Cards). I am trying to find out how much baseball players were paid, and if they were paid PER CARD or one SET FEE for use of their image and baseball history on the cards.|||If it was anything like National Hockey League, according to Maurice "the rocket" Richard not much..... he said that the players now get paid in a day what he would make in an entire year, that was in the 60's or so......|||I don't think they got very much if anything. I know that Honus Wagner had his face pulled from Tobacco cards because he was against tobacco use. I am not sure if they made any profit on the sell of tobacco cards.|||I read that it was done on a contract basis, yearly contracts for no more then a couple hundred dollars a year. Most players had another job besides playing Baseball in the summer.

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