The playhouse, in an age of television and its astronomical salaries, is never going to be a big-money proposition.

The major league game, with its astronomical salaries and periodic strikes, can seem hardly to resemble the sport most of the artists here dreamed about.

Use the money saved from the chancellor's astronomical salary and spread the wealth where it truly belongs - to the schools!

Free agency, astronomical salaries and the frequent changes in location and ownership shifted the image of control in baseball.

In an environment of astronomical salaries, he is a season away from what will no doubt be talks on a lucrative long-term contract with the Mets.

"There's something incompatible about astronomical salaries and a good workplace," he said.

But even players of his caliber cannot be given astronomical salaries after such a short stint in the major leagues.

They pay their broadcasters astronomical salaries, and provide them with excellent working conditions and a national audience that religious leaders might covet.

Look around the game today, with its astronomical salaries and peripatetic personnel, and you see his legacy.

The stars reportedly don't get their usual astronomical salaries, but then this is not particularly hard work.