Major League Baseball - World Series Payday

, The St. Louis Cardinals earned a bonus of $323,170 for winning the 2011 World Series. In all, players from 10 different teams received post season bonuses, including four teams that didn\'t make the playoffs.

Who gets what is determined by the Collective Bargaining Agreement. Each playoff series has a separate pool: the Division Series, the League Championship Series, and the World Series. The bonus pool is funded by 60 percent of the gate receipts for the first three games of the Division Series, the first four games of the League Championship Series, and the first four Cardinals Baseball Jersey games of the World Series.

During the season, the players determine who will get a full share, partial share, or no share. Usually, players that have been with the team the entire year Cardinals Baseball Jersey receive full shares. There have been cases where players join the team just prior to the trade deadline to be voted a full share. Athletic Trainers, equipment managers and clubhouse managers usually receive a partial, or no share.

2011 was a good year for Arthur Rhodes. He will get a World Series and League Championship ring. Since he played for both the Texas Rangers and the St. Louis Cardinals he will get shares from both teams. It\'s the seventh time in World Series history that has happened. Last year, Bengie Molina played for the Rangers and Giants.

The pool is intentionally limited Cardinals Baseball Jersey to the minimum number of games required to win the series so as to discourage any artificial extension of the series by greedy individuals (the 1919 Chicago White Sox).

The amount of the gate is determined by stadium size, number of premium seats, luxury boxes, and attendance. Since most stadiums seat about the same number of fans and ticket prices are determined by Major League Baseball (MLB), the pool money is about the same no matter who plays.

The World Series champion earns 35 percent, the World Series loser earns 24 percent, and the four Division Series losers get three percent. If you were starting to feel sorry the four runner-up teams, the four second-place teams that don\'t qualify for the playoffs get one percent.

This year\'s total player\'s pool was $57,299,244.23, with the Cardinals taking $20,627,727.92 and Texas taking $13,751,818.61.

Here\'s the breakdown of the other teams:

Championship Series runners-up

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