It is certainly interesting to see new ways of understanding just how much money athletes (or anybody, for that matter) make. Contrast that, of course, with how much tickets cost at Major League Baseball parks...
The bottom five of that spectrum: Yankees, Mets, Dodgers, Cubs, and (shockingly) the Nationals. Go figure. Make your own conclusions on the two graphs juxtaposed above.
In general, drawings like these are wonderful ways of grasping visual data. Take, for instance, the following infograph:
Using this colored bar graph, Robinson gives us the opportunity to engage the home run debate with perspective. Should we purge the player numbers represented by the pink, rose, and orange bars from the record books? The best solution is probably somewhere between erasing the steroid era from history and allowing Bonds, et al. to stand as the legitimate home run leader. I'm not sure asterisks are necessary, but what about a graph like the one above in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown?
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