Every July 1, baseball fans celebrate the unfortunate and now illustrious story of Bobby Bonilla and his deferred money from the New York Mets ...

The Mets became one of the worst teams in baseball, losing 103 games in 1993. By the summer of 1995, they were done with Bonilla, trading him to Baltimore where he spent the next year and a half. He ...

Happy Bobby Bonilla Day! What we know The 62-year-old Bobby Bonilla received a check for $1,193,248.20 from the Mets on Tuesday. This has been the case every July 1 starting in 2011.

Bonilla earns more than many active baseball players — the league minimum salary this season is $760,000 — even though he’s now 62 and hasn’t swung a bat professionally since 2001.

Last offseason, the Los Angeles Dodgers gave baseball megastar Shohei Othani a $700 million megadeal. As part of that ...

TAMPA -- Thursday was orientation at the University of South Florida, a sea of rising freshmen and their families, and somehow no one noticed the guy who’s the 16th-highest-paid player on the New York ...

TAMPA -- Thursday was orientation at the University of South Florida, a sea of rising freshmen and their families, and somehow no one noticed the guy who’s the 16th-highest-paid player on the ...

The first day of July marks Bobby Bonilla Day, an annual celebration of one of the strangest deals in the history of MLB.

Bonilla is celebrated every July 1 because that's the day the Mets have to pay him $1.2 million. Bonilla hasn't played in the ...

Bobby Bonilla, 62, is a renowned former baseball third baseman and outfielder who gained fame while playing in Major League Baseball.

Bonilla has the most infamous deferred deal in MLB history and still receives checks from the Mets, despite last playing for them in 1999.

The first day of July marks Bobby Bonilla Day, an annual celebration of one of the strangest deals in the history of MLB.