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author: Eric Wagoner
date: '2000-12-15T01:31:27'
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title: Last week, a baseball player
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Last week, a baseball player I'd never heard of (I understand he plays in the American league, which uses a freakish set of rules for the game) made news by signing a contract that will pay him a quarter-billion dollars (or, one "A-Rod") over ten years. Jenn, of Whim & Vinegar, has composed a [socialy conscious list](http://www.gooddeed.net/blog/index.html?archives/2000_12_10_arc.html#1665674) of what one A-Rod could fund.