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Article: $105 MILLION MAN; DODGERS SIGN KEVIN BROWN.(NEWS)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- December 13, 1998
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Byline: Michael A. Anastasi Daily News Sports Editor
Now, anything less than a world championship is failure.
The Dodgers became baseball's first team to guarantee a player $100 million Saturday when they signed Kevin Brown - the game's premier free-agent pitcher - to a seven-year, $105 million contract.
The deal utterly stunned, though not necessarily surprised, baseball administrators gathered in Nashville, Tenn., this week for their annual winter meetings.
The Dodgers, the American sports jewel of Rupert Murdoch's empire, raised their payroll to about $80 million annually, 10 times what the Montreal Expos paid their team this past ...