Athletes
Dave Winfield Net Worth
Dave Winfield's Net Worth as of 2024
$12 Million
David Mark Winfield was born on the 3rd October 1951, in St. Paul, Minnesota USA, and is a former Major League Baseball (MLB) right fielder who played for such teams as the San Diego Padres (1973-1980), New York Yankees (1981-1988, and again in 1990), California Angels (1990-1991), Toronto Blue Jays (1992), Minnesota Twins (1993-1994), and Cleveland Indians (1995). His career started in the early ‘70s, and after his retirement in the mid- ‘90s, Dave started working as analyst for ESPN. He also serves as special assistant to the executive director of the MLB Players Association.
Have you ever wondered how rich Dave Winfield is, as of early 2017? According to authoritative sources, it has been estimated that Winfield’s net worth is as high as $12 million, an amount earned through his success as a player, and as an analyst and MLB executive.
Dave Winfield Net Worth $12 Million
David’s childhood was troublesome, since his parents divorced when he was three, and with his brother he was raised by their mother, and nurtured by their uncles and grandparents.
After he matriculated, Dave enrolled at the University of Minnesota, where he excelled in both baseball and basketball. He also played summer league for the Alaska Goldpanners in 1971 and 1972, and in the latter year he was named MVP. After his college days ended, Dave was drafted by four teams in three sports, although he never played football at college. He was selected by the San Diego Padres of the MLB, Utah Stars of the ABA, Atlanta Hawks of the NBA, and Minnesota Vikings of the NFL, only the fourth player to achieve such a thing, with to Noel Jenke, Mickey McCarty and Dave Logan.
Dave focused on baseball, and signed a professional contract with the San Diego Padres. In his first season, Dave immediately played in the majors as a batter, but also in the position of right field. His stats numbers were impressive, since he batted .277 in the 56 games he played.
He continued to impress his teammates, coaches and media as well, rising to national stardom in 1977, when he made his first All-Star appearance. During his career, he made 11 more All-Star appearances, consecutively until 1988. He played for the Padres until 1980 when he became a free agent, the season after he received his first Gold Glove Award, which he would receive six more times, 1980, 1982-1985 and in 1987. After the Padres, Dave signed a contract worth $23 million over ten years with the New York Yankees, making Dave the highest paid player in the league. He continued to play successfully for the Yankees, and led them to post season after post season, however, the final step was never there. He left the Yankees without winning the World Series.
Nevertheless, he did receive several other awards.
After the Yankees, Dave’s next stop was the California Angels, however, after one season he joined the Toronto Blue Jays, and that year won his only World Series, making also the Toronto Blue Jay the, only team outside USA to win the (so-called) World Series.
Although aging, Dave still felt he had games in his hands, and joined the Minnesota Twins, playing with them until the baseball strike in 1994, after which he was traded to the Cleveland Indians.
Thanks to the entire cancellation of the season, in order to set the trade right, the Minnesota Twins and Cleveland Indians went to a dinner, with Minnesota executives paying the bill. As a result, Dave is the only player in history of the game to be traded for a dinner, although in official documents it is stated that Dave had been sold to the Indians. In his last MLB season, Dave played in 46 games and had .191 batting average.
He finished his career with a .283 batting average, 3,110 hits, 465 home runs and 1,833 runs batted in. In 2001 he was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, having already been inducted into the San Diego Hall of Champions in 1998.
Post- his playing days, Dave joined Fox in 1996 as an analyst, and then ESPN in 2009. Meantime he was a senior advisor to te San Diego Padres from 2001-09, and from 2013 has been a special assistant to the MLB Players’ Association.
Regarding his personal life, Dave has been married to Tonya Turner since 1988; the couple has two children.
Having achieved fame and fortune, Dave decided to give back his share to the community and started the Dave Foundation, through which he helps families and children in need, and has started numerous educational programs. Thanks to his philanthropic activities, Dave received the Roberto Clemento Award in 1994.
Athletes
Roger Federer Net Worth
Roger Federer was born on 8 August 1981, in Basel, Switzerland to Robert and Lynette Federer, the latter’s South African descent entitling Federer to hold both Swiss and South African citizenship. Roger is perceived by many to be the greatest tennis player of all time, and this title could well be deserved both in successes on the court and maintenance at the highest level, plus his sporting personality rarely equalled in professional sportspeople.
So just how rich is Roger Federer? This outstanding professional tennis player is estimated to have a current net worth of $420 million, increasing momentarily as he continues to play most weeks of the year, and annual prize money plus endorsements can approach $100 million.
Roger Federer Net Worth $420 Million
Roger Federer first became interested in tennis when he was still a child. Starting school at six years of age, he quickly became the best tennis player in his age group. Eight years later he became the national age group champion, and was sent to train at the Swiss National Tennis Centre in Ecublens.In 1998 he won the ITF junior singles tournament and became the ITF Champion of the Year. After that his career skyrocketed. As of mid-2015, the Swiss-born athlete holds the record for ranking in the ATP No. 1 position for 237 consecutive weeks (from 2004 to 2008), and in total 302 weeks. The tennis icon has appeared in 25 Grand Slam finals and won seventeen of them. He has broken numerous records playing in these tournaments, including the record for 10 consecutive finals, and has acheived a Grand Slam of titles, plus jointly holding the record of seven Wibledon titles (with Pete Sampras) and five US titles (with Sampras and Jimmy Connors). During his long career, Federer has won over 80 tournaments in total, and it has been reported that he has won more prize money than any other player, although this is difficult to establish as values constantly change in comparison with previous champions.
Roger Federer also earns a great deal of money from his endorsement contracts. He has signed long-term deals with Nike, Rolex, Wilson and Credit Suisse, and recently he decided to collaborate with champagne brand Moet & Chandon. In addition to being one of the best-paid athletes out there, his endorsement contracts are just as impressive, as he receives $40 million every year just from his sponsors! According to Forbes, he holds # 8 place in a list of 100 top-earning celebrities as of 2013. But despite his huge financial success and celebrity status, Roger Federer does not hold back when it comes to helping those in need. In 2003 together with his mother he established the Roger Federer Foundationin order to help disadvantaged people and promote a healthy lifestyle. He was also one of the most active celebrities to participate in organizing charities raising money for the victims of the Indian Ocean earthquake in 2004 and Haiti earthquake in 2010.
He is fluent in Swiss-German, German, French and English languages. Like all men in Switzerland, Federer was supposed to serve in the Swiss army, but in 2003 he was released from this duty because of continuous back pain. Roger Federer, who is often called Maestro, is married to the former professional tennis player Miroslava Vavrinec. They met at the 2000 Sydney Olympics where she was competing as well. Due to a foot injury she retired from professional sports and now manages her husband’s public relations. In 2009 the couple married in Basel , and has two sets of twins – twin boys and twin girls.
Athletes
Tiger Woods Net Worth
Eldrick Tont “Tiger” Woods was born on 30 December 1975 in Cypress, California USA, of part-Chinese, and African- and Native- American (father) and Thai (mother) descent. He is one of the the world’s highest earning sportsmen, a professional golfer who was ranked number one in the world for a total of 545 weeks between in 1997 and 2010, and then for another 60 weeks in 2013-14, the most of any golfer, and during which period he won 119 tournaments on the PGA and European tours.
So just how rich is Tiger Woods? Regardless of the fact that Woods’ divorce from ex-wife Elin Nordegren (former Swedish model), cost him $100 million dollars – including $54.5 million in mortgage payment finalised in January 2016 – authoritative sources estimate that Tiger’s net worth is now still over $770 million, accumulated from golf prize money of around $160 million, and the rest from endorsements during a 20 year career, totalling overall more than $1.3 billion.
Tiger Woods Net Worth $770 Million
Encouraged by his father Earl, Tiger became a child golfing prodigy, already at the age of 3 putting against comedian Bob Hope. He was called on TV shows and published in Golf Digest magazine. He won age group events around the world from the age of eight, and being a 15 year-old teenager he became the youngest US Junior Amateur champion. He was educated at Western High School, Anaheim, but golf was his priority, and at 20 (1996), he became the first in golf history to win three consecutive US Amateur titles, while (apparently) studying at Stanford University.
Tiger then turned professional, and immediately signed multi-million dollar contracts with famous companies such as Nike and Titleist. Next year Woods won his first ‘major’, the US Masters, and achieved number one world ranking, the youngest and the fastest to get to that position. The list of his winnings is endless and achievements too many to mention, but apart from aforementioned 79 victories in the USA and Europe – only Sam Snead has won more(82) – he has won two Japan Golf Tour events, an Asian Tour event, one PGA Tour of Australasia event, as well as 21 titles as an amateur. Of particular significance is that Tiger has won 14 ‘major’ titles, second only behind Jack Nicklaus(18), which has included the ‘grand slam’ of golf three times. In addition, he had been awarded PGA Player of the year 11 times and the Byron Nelson award eight times. There can be no doubt that Tiger Woods has earned his net worth.
Woods is considered the most successful player of all times, partly because of his winning record, but also because he is the first and the only golfer to have earned more than a billion dollars. This fortune was made not only by playing golf, but also by signing very lucrative contracts with companies such as Rolex, General Motors, American Express, and Gatorade apart from Titleist and Nike, and becoming an ambassador for Gillette. Moreover, the businesses of Tiger Woods Foundation which promotes golf, and Tiger Woods Design which is involved with golf courses development, are also very profitable. The athlete is a published writer with “How I Play Golf” as well, which has brought him steady income from 1.5 million copies sold. He has also written a column for the magazine “Golf Digest’ – presumably both added to his net worth.
Following his very public divorce from Elin Nordegren who he married in 2004 – they divorced in 2010 and have two children – also involving details of infidelity over the years, Tiger Woods dated Olympic Games skiing gold medallist Lindsey Vonn for a couple of years, but apparently no more. He was raised a Buddhist, and professes to still follow the teachings.
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