NOW YOU KNOW
The New York Yankees were baseball’s highest-paid team over the last five seasons. A look at the Yankees’ weekly payroll for those years. (New York won one World Series in that span, in 2000):
* 2004...$3.5 million
* 2003...$2.9 million
* 2002...$2.4 million
* 2001...$2.1 million
* 2000...$1.8 million
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Source: World Features Syndicate
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