... sports card (baseball, basketball, football, hockey, even tennis all have collectible cards) mounts into the billions each year. Salaries for star athletes reflect the celestial standing of players like Michael Jordan, Joe Montana, Bo Jackson, Wayne Gretzky and Steffi Graf. In a former age the individuals who garnered the greatest respect of the country, who commanded the largest salaries, who changed the course of history itself, were the warriors. Commanders-in-chief from Alexander the Great and Hannibal ...
