Racing is the deadliest sport,hockey the roughest,football the toughest,

[Swede]

basketball is non-stop running, yet baseball is the highest paying? How did that happen?

[jpgray]

1. Try to hit a round ball with a cylindrical bat consistently well,

when the ball is moving at 80+ mph over a relatively short distance. Now make sure you are able to run very fast, are able to correctly analyze any fielding scenario and make the correct decision instantly, and can scoop up a ball bouncing randomly along with varying degrees of spin every time. Baseball takes a lot of skill.

[Swede]

4. You forgot standing around for 1/2 an hour scratching your nuts&spitting.

Seriously,I see your point,but baseball guys have it pretty sweet.

[cindyw]

5. Try getting yourself to the front of a pack of drivers at speeds over 150

miles an hour, shifting at just the right moment, driving with 0 visability through a crash and making sure that all the parts in your car are adjusted just perfect to have a car that goes .003 seconds faster than everyone. Takes a lot more skill. That is why there are 50 "major league" drivers and hundreds of baseball players.

[Neoma]

2. Soccer...the funnest?

[Blue_State_Elitist]

3. I think you mean funnerest

[Neoma]

6. right..

[Anarcho-Socialist]

7. the most popular, at least world-wide n/t

[chenGOD]

8. Michael Schumacher earns more than any ballplayer

His salary alone is about $40 million, and with endorsements he earns about double that per season. That's a little less than the top 4 ball players.
Tiger Woods earned more than Schumacher in 2004. at 80.3 million.

here's the Forbes link: http://www.forbes.com/2004/06/23/04athletesland.html

Another intersting article: football(soccer) crushes baseball globally
http://www.forbes.com/2004/04/13/cz_kb_0413match.html 9be sure to click the pop-up slide show for some fun facts..