Ernie Banks Net Worth 2018: What is this baseball player worth?
Ernie Banks was a pro baseball player who played Shortstop / First baseman. Banks was born on January 31, 1931, in Dallas, Texas. Banks died on January 23, 2015, in Chicago. This page will take a closer look at Ernie Banks’s net worth.
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Ernie Banks Career, Earnings
Banks batted Right and threw Right. Banks debuted in the MLB on September 17, 1953 for the Chicago Cubs. In all, Banks played for the Chicago Cubs. Banks’s career ended with the Chicago Cubs in 1971.
Some of Banks’s most prominent statistics in the MLB included a Batting average stat of .274, a Hit stat of 2,583, and a Home runs stat of 512. Some of the highlights of Ernie Banks’s career included: 14× Major League Baseball All-Star Game, 1961 Major League Baseball All-Star Game -1962 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, 1965 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, 1967 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, 1969 Major League Baseball All-Star Game), 2× NL MVP, Gold Glove Award, 2× List of Major League Baseball annual home run leaders, 2× List of Major League Baseball annual runs batted in leaders, Jersey number retired, and Major League Baseball All-Century Team.
Ernie Banks was inducted into the National Hall of Fame during the Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, 1977 induction period with a vote of 83.8% (first ballot).
Ernie Banks Net Worth 2018
Player pay can range widely. In professional baseball, the median pay is about $3 million every year. Top pro baseball players can earn $25 million or more annually, and less successful players bring in $1 million or less. In the minor leagues, most contracts pay less than $10,000 a year.
Ernie Banks net worth: baseball salary distribution
So what was baseball player Ernie Banks’s net worth at the time of death? Our estimate for Ernie Banks’s net worth at death is:
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