You could buy a lot of Hebrew Nationals in those days for $17.15

Zack Hample, baseball collector extraordinaire, discovered this fun find: an expense sheet for the NY Mets in 1962. The per diem for most of the team seemed to have been $17.15. Today that would be, like, a million dollars.



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  • Don’t show this to the Wilpons!

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