76 years ago in 1933, the first baseball commissioner Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis (who presided over the "trial" and banishment of the 1919 Chicago Black Sox, including "Shoeless" Joe Jackson) announced that he would cut his salary by 40% due to the Great Depression.
Can you imagine Bud Selig cutting 40% of his salary today? Considering he's paid around $18 million a year, that's a pay cut of over $7 million.
(In my best George H.W. Bush impression) "Not gonna happen, not gonna do it . . ."
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