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You see it every July 1, every year, without fail: something called Bobby Bonilla Day, a "holiday" of sorts celebrated everywhere by baseball fans, who use memes and jokes to talk about how the ...
Discover why Bobby Bonilla Day trends every 1 July, how his $30M deal became internet legend, and what makes it one of MLB's quirkiest traditions.
Every July 1, like clockwork, the New York Mets cut Bonilla a check for nearly $1.2 million. He hasn’t played a game since 2001. He hasn’t suited up for the Mets since 1999. But here we are in 2025, ...
The first day of July marks Bobby Bonilla Day, an annual celebration of one of the strangest deals in the history of MLB.
Bobby Bonilla isn't the only one getting deferred money from an MLB team like the New York Mets.
Bonilla has the most infamous deferred deal in MLB history and still receives checks from the Mets, despite last playing for them in 1999.
Bobby Bonilla Mets contract Bonilla initially signed a five-year, $29 million contract with the Mets ahead of the 1992 MLB season, but that's not the contract that led to Bobby Bonilla Day.
Bobby Bonilla Day has arrived once again. 2025 marks the 15th July 1 that the Mets have to pay him $1.19 million after a contract buyout in 2000 that called for annual payments from 2011-2035.
Bobby Bonilla Day is here, with giant check for a Mets star who retired in 2001 Bobby Bonilla Day "celebrates" the New York Mets' annual deferred payment to a player who retired in 2001 and will ...
One of Major League Baseball's biggest errors didn't happen on the diamond, and a former MLB slugger has been laughing all the way to the bank because of it.Tuesday is Bobby Bonilla Day.Bonilla ...
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