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There’s never been a better time to be a Major League Baseball player. The league is thriving, bolstered by record revenues, and the players are reaping record salaries and record pensions. Too bad they've forgotten the generation of players who made it possible — players such as Doug Howard, the former BYU baseball and basketball player.
He played in only 97 major league games for three teams from 1972 to 1976, totaling 233 plate appearances, 46 hits and a single home run. He might have played longer, but he turned down an offer from the Red Sox to return to the minors because he had a wife and four kids and didn’t have the stomach or time for another trip to a backwater team.