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Who was the first baseball player to make a million dollars a year?

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Who was the first baseball player to make a million dollars a year?

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Nolan Ryan, 1980, was the first with a contract that flat-out called for a million dollars in a year. Dave Parker, 1979, had a contract that apparently paid him a million dollars for what he did that year, although a lot of it was in delayed payments and incentive clauses.