On a day when NBA and NHL players across the nation are stamping their names on fat new contracts, it's Bobby Bonilla who will once again make out like the slickest of diamond thieves.
Today, July 1—nearly 15 years since his last appearance in a Major League Baseball game—the former slugger will receive another check for $1.19 million from the New York Mets.
It's just one of many annual payments Bonilla agreed to receive as part of a drastic contract restructuring he signed with the franchise prior to the 2000 MLB season. Looking to cut ties with Bonilla and put off paying the $5.