Here’s an opinion to prove opinions don't prove anything.
"A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer,” Joe DiMaggio told the New York Times in 1961. “That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues."
Dee Gordon, born in 1988, stood on the field as a first-time All-Star Tuesday night. His dad, Tom “Flash” Gordon, began his MLB career in 1989. The elder statesman of the family made more than $55 million spinning freaky, nasty curveballs in the direction of flailing moppets like me.
Rich? Pretty much the very definition.
In December 2013, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median wage for full-time workers in the United States was $786 per week, which translates to $40,872 per year.
When Dee was a teenager, Tom made seven million dollars in a single year, roughly 143 times today’s median wage.
Funny. When I watched Dee slide to his left, pop up and complete his brilliant play to nab Michael Brantley in yesterday’s game, he looked starved. That, however, could be my personal bias. I’ve seen him with his shirt off.
