In 1995, had a song written about her by the band Fossil titled Josephine Baker. In 2003, another musical went on stage, in Belgium, called Simenon et Josephine. It was a musical comedy related to the Maigret year of 2003 in Belgium.
There is no salary cap in MLB. There is however, a luxury tax system which makes it more expensive for a team to carry a high payroll. How it works is that there is a threshold ($189M in 2015); if a team's payroll is above that limit, a tax of 17.5% of the amount they're over by is paid to the league as a fine.
Major League Baseball players make bank, as the kids say. The Associated Press did some figuring, and reported Tuesday that the average annual MLB salary in 2014 will surpass $4 million â a princely sum, and also a record. In 1976 when free agency began, the average salary was about $50,000, or roughly $206,000 in today's dollars when measuring against the consumer price index.