I agree and I think what scarfacetm is trying to say is there was more loyally before. They wasn't a thing called free agnecy until the 1970s when Catfish Hunter came to the Yankees. Prior to that, the only way a player left a team was if they were traded. Today, players leave teams for the highest bidder and then whine like b*tches when they don't win (i.e. Miguel Tejada).