RaveThe Dallas Morning NewsThat skyrocketing salary growth has not occurred for schoolteachers or police officers or truck drivers or journalists. What happened within professional sports — especially baseball, football, basketball, golf and tennis — to create nothing short of a revolution? How is it that Dallas Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach earned about $25,000 during his first season as a starter, and thus sold commercial real estate during the football off-season, while a generation later his successors earned unimagined multiples of that sum? That is the question addressed masterfully by author Matthew Futterman ... The section about McCormack is filled with insights not only into sports, but also into human nature.
