The Red Sox celebrated “Bobby Bonilla Day”

Jul 5 2022 by Over the Monster

 
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With some old and new names

There’s one baseball holiday like no other: Bobby Bonilla Day. Because the New York Mets were, let’s say, not savvy investors, they cooked up up a scheme top pay Bobby Bonilla a little bit of money for a long time rather than $5.9 million for the year 2000. Yes, the year 2000. And every July 1 since 2011 (through 2035) the former Met gets a check for $1,193,248.20.

Thus a holiday was born.

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