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1994 Baseball owners impose salary cap, fiercely opposed by players 1994 Court upholds NBA salary cap and draft rights 1992 27th Amendment ratified, prohibits Congress from raising its salary 1991 NL Cy Young winner Doug Drabek wins record $3 mil salary arbitration 1991 Wally Joyner wins record $2.1 million salary arbitration 1987 Don Mattingly wins highest salary arbitration ($1,975,000 per year) 1987 Tigers' Jack Morris awarded $1.85 million salary by arbitrator 1986 Jack Morris agrees to salary arbitration with former team Tigers and accuses owners of collusion against free agency 1986 Los Angeles Dodger Orel Hershiser is 1st to win a $1M salary by arbitration 1985 Tim Raines is awarded a $12 million salary for 1985 by arbitrator 1983 Fernando Valenzuela wins his salary arbitration of $1 million 1970 Players and management end labor dispute up min salary to $12,000 1969 U.S. Congress doubles president salary 1968 Baseball announces a minimum annual salary of $10,000 1952 US Standard Board clears Stan Musial to get an $85,000 salary 1950 Indians pitcher Bob Feller, after 15-14 season, takes $20,000 salary cut to $45,000, pay cut is Feller's own suggestion 1946 Baseball grants $5,000 minimum salary 1932 President Hoover cuts own salary 15% 1923 Salary and price freeze in Germany 1923 2 "Black Sox" sue White Sox (unsuccessfully) for back salary 1873 U.S. Congress and government raise own salary, retroactively 1853 Cincinnati became 1st U.S. city to pay fire fighters a regular salary

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