Former major-league baseball player Bobby Bonilla hasn't played in a professional game since 2001.
He's 52 years old and last stepped on a baseball diamond less than a year after George W. Bush moved into the White House.
He's also set to receive a $1.2 million paycheck from the New York Mets as part of a deferment he agreed to with the team in 2000.
Bonilla was set to earn $5.9 million in the final year of his contract in 2000, a year that didn't even see him suit up for the club. Instead of paying out that seemingly large amount of money, the Mets agreed to a deferment deal with Bonilla that was to pay him $1.2 million per year for the next quarter-century.
The deal runs through 2035, and the Mets will end up paying Bonilla nearly $30 million instead of the $5.9 million it was set to pay him back in 2000.
Mets starting pitcher Matt Harvey is set to earn $614,000 this year, which is almost half of what the Mets are paying a player who hasn't suited up in almost 15 years.
Harvey, a first-round pick in the 2010 draft, is considered one of the best young pitchers in the game. Harvey was 10 years old the last time Bonilla played for the Mets at the now defunct Shea Stadium.
A great deal
Matt LaChappa was a 20-year-old minor-league pitcher in the San Diego Padres organization in 1996 when he suffered a heart attack.
It ended his career and resulted in health complications that have since put LaChappa in a wheelchair. But the organization has gone out of its way to make sure LaChappa has been cared for. San Diego has signed him to a minor league contract every year since 1996. The 2015 season is his 20th season with the team.
The act is far from ceremonial. By signing a contract with the club, LaChappa is able to get health care through the organization.
LaChappa still makes regular visits to watch Padres games.
Prayers answered
How about getting down on one knee at Amen Corner as Augusta National patrons give you a standing ovation for a new way to propose?
Taylor Lamb did just that during Monday's practice round at the Masters, earning a yes from his new fiancee and a new start on life in one fell swoop.
It was close to not happening.
Lamb, 25, purchased the ring in November and had Monday at the Masters locked in ever since as the day he would propose to Alyson Dukes, 26. The only problem was that he didn't have any practice-round badges or, more importantly, a backup plan.
A sports information director at Georgia Regents University, Lamb worked the 3M Augusta Invitational on Sunday at Forest Hills Golf Club, thinking two Monday badges were coming his way. But as of the end of the work day, they hadn't.
"I was walking to my car in defeat. I mean, I had already told both our moms -- and a ton of friends -- about my plan, and all I could think about was having to call everything off," Lamb told the Augusta Chronicle.
That's when Georgia Regents Athletic Director Clint Bryant came to the rescue, driving up with two badges just before Lamb left the course.
"I had honestly given up," Lamb said. "Then two seconds later, it all fell into place."
QUIZ
With what team did Bobby Bonilla finish his major league baseball career?
ANSWER
The St. Louis Cardinals
Sports on 04/11/2015