There’s one baseball holiday like no other: Bobby Bonilla Day. Because the New York Mets were, let’s say, not savvy investors, they cooked up up a scheme top pay Bobby Bonilla a little bit of money for a long time rather than $5.9 million for the year 2000. Yes, the year 2000. And every July 1 since 2011 (through 2035) the former Met gets a check for $1,193,248.20.
Thus a holiday was born.
But it’s not really a day only for Bonilla. The less fun sounding name is “deferred payment day” and the Red Sox have a few players still getting paid.