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Pagliarini How to lose $20 million: the sudden wealth problems
of professional athletes  How could someone lose $20 million in
a year? You're about to find out just how easy it is to go from
life-changing, never-have-to-work-again rich to I-can't-believe-
it's-all-gone in less than 12 months. Let's look at a
hypothetical baseball player. He's worked hard to develop his
natural athletic abilities, and one day he gets the call. A
California team will pay him $20 million for a single year --
this is an amount that would take the average American worker
nearly 500 years to earn. The national media reports this and
the small town where he grew up throws the young man a parade to
celebrate his good fortune. But before the first piece of
confetti falls, our...