Which baseball player was first to make one million dollars a season?

Nolan Ryan was the first millionaire in Major League Baseball (MLB). Because of the way he pitched a baseball, Ryan's who put fear into most of the hitters that faced him. Many feared him not because he could strike them out, but because he could in fact kill them if he hit them with a pitch.

Some baseball players would state that they just hoped to mix in a walk with a hit, so they could have a good night at bat. Reggie Jackson once said of Nolan Ryan, Nolan signed with the Astros in 1979 for a four-year contract worth $4.5 million, making him baseball's first million-dollar-a-year man. And, like the six million dollar man (from the 1974 - 1978 TV show), Ryan may have had a nuclear-powered arm."

The Guinness Book of World Records officially clocked Ryan's fastball at 100.9 miles per hour in 1974. Not many pitchers in the history of baseball could perform on the pitcher's mound like Nolan Ryan.