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What is Bobby Bonilla Day? Why New York Mets have to pay retired MLB star $1 million every year on July 1st
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Bobby Bonilla Day: Why his deal with the Mets was so lucrative
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Bobby Bonilla Day: Behind baseball's greatest contract
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Bobby Bonilla's contract is one of the most famous in baseball history
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Bobby Bonilla Day Exclusive: Bonilla Interview on Mets Contract, Sports History's Most Famous Deal
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Bobby Bonilla Day: Celebrating One of the 'Greatest Retirement Plans in History
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Hoornstra: How the 'Bobby Bonilla contract' became a $180,000 auction item – Orange County Register
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Never Forget That 53-Year-Old Bobby Bonilla Has the Best Dumb Contract in the World
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Bobby Bonilla Day: Why Mets pay him over $1M every July despite last playing for them in 1999
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Smiling All the Way to the Bank: Happy 'Bobby Bonilla Day
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Bobby Bonilla Day: The story behind the best baseball contract ever
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