The Times obsession with income inequality spills over to the sports section today, which somehow manages to make an article about an appearance by Yankee star Alex Rodriguez at the Yankee's AA minor league affiliate into political-economic commentary. From the story:
his trip to Reading will almost certainly become an afterthought, an asterisk, but while he was here it made for an unusual pairing. Rodriguez, armed with the richest contract in baseball history, found himself plying his trade in one of the poorest cities in the country. Reading has a median household income of $27,416, far below the statewide median of $51,651, according to Census Bureau data.
Actually, it's not such an unusual pairing, because the place where Rodriguez usually plies his trade, Yankee Stadium, is situated in the South Bronx, which is also one of the poorest places in the country as measured by median household income.