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Byon Nelson Leads Golf Earnings Amid Cash Boom
The 1945 circuits show golf stars like Nelson Hogan McSpaden and Snead near the top earnings, with football salaries rising in the new league and baseball pay climbing for stars such as Greenberg DiMaggio Gordon and Wakefield.Joe Louis and Billy Conn face taxes on record gates, while jockeys Eddie Arcaro Ted Atkinson and Arnold Kirkland also top earnings, as the era of big paychecks reshapes pro sports across America.
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Byron Nelson
Hogan
McSpaden
Snead
Hank Greenberg
Hank
DiMaggio
Stor
Marty Marion
Cooper Brothers
Hal Newhouser
Dizzy Trout
Sammy Baugh
Sid Luckman
Don Hutson
Paul Brown
Ohio State
Cleveland
Paul
Greenberg
Gordon
Dickey
Wakefield
Joe Louis
Billy Conn
Louis
Conn
Mike Jacobs
Joe
Schunk
Eddie Arcaro
Ted Atkinson
Arnold Kirkland
Maine Chance
Ken Strong
Arnold Herber
Mel Hein