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Originally Posted by TomVeal
It would be great to have historically accurate contracts in the game, but I wonder how much of that data is available. When I was a lad, in the reserve clause era, contract terms were often deep secrets. I recall a sportswriter making a splash one year by claiming that he had seen Ted Williams' contract.
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The salary data is available, albeit not easily. The Baseball Hall of Fame and Library has the player cards, which are cards clubs filed with their leagues, which contain information about the player, including his salary. That data has to be manually written down by someone looking at those physical cards.
A fellow by the name of Michael Haupert, an economics professor, has been doing exactly that. He's written a number of articles published in the SABR Business of Baseball Committee newsletter, analyzing the salary data he has collected so far. Perhaps he might be willing to share the data he has with OOTP Developments.