November 24, 1991
On this day, Monica Seles won the Virginia Slims Championships at Madison Square Gardens and added to her aggregate win total for 1991. Her total of $2,457,758 set a new female tennis winning record. Her total is even more amazing, considering that the 2009 leader (Serena Williams) has accumulated $6,545,586 – which is only a 166% increase since 1991.
On the baseball side, the top 2009 yearly income (Alex Rodriguez, $32,000,000) is 451% higher than its 1991 counterpart (Bobby Bonilla, $5,800,000). Granted, women’s tennis isn’t a salaried sport like Major League Baseball, but you get the point.
Maybe you don’t…in which case we’ll parlay a Monica Seles mention into a reference of the great “Lip Reader” Seinfeld episode in which Kramer becomes a ball boy.
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