Why There Needs To Be A Salary Cap In Major League Baseball

The 2007 World Series is officially over and once again , the Boston Red Sox are the champions of the world . After four straight games , the Red Sox became victorious over the Colorado Rockies . However , was this Worlds Series one that was uplifting and competitive ? The Boston Red Sox fans would not complain if their team had won 13 to 1 every game as they did with the first game . However , for the other 90 of the league 's fans , the World Series was a disappointment . Some would say that it was a disappointment

because many simply wanted more baseball to be played Others feel that the interests of the Major Leagues comes not only from following one 's favorite teams , but the close pennant races which come down to the wire . 1 /3 of the team will win a third of their games and 1 /3 of the teams will lose a third of their games ' What keeps the fan interested is the outcome of all those other teams . It is the same in all other major sports . When a team blows out another team in the Super Bowl by thirty points , there exists a disappointing feeling within many of the fans . The same can be said in Basketball , Hockey and all other major sports in America . As a result , the competitive nature of the game of baseball and the skill that must accompany any individual who seeks to stay in the league for more than a month is what keeps the average baseball fans coming back for more . It is not the ballooning salaries and the fact that players do not stay with one team for the rest of their career . In this spirit , the fact that the game of Baseball is the only organization within the major sports in America which does not have an active salary cap , contributes to the fact that most who follow the Major Leagues , no longer feel that connect to the players that once was common place within the game and which only to those over the age of fifty , can remember . The salary cap is also completely capitalist as well as the salary cap still supports competitiveness as well as the reward for that skill

There can be no doubt that the salaries of Major League Baseball players have increased in recent years . In 1950 , the average baseball player earned six times that salary of the average worker in America . By 1994 that number had increased to fifty times and by 2004 , that number was as high as seventy times the average salary of the American worker . In 1984 , the average major league baseball salary was 329 ,000 . By 1990 that had increased to nearly 600 and by 1997 that number was reaching towards 1 .5 million . The fact that there are literally millions of American men in this country who would go to dizzying lengths if only to have the opportunity to play in the Major Leagues for a single year...