Contract Facts

Dmitry Agarkov received a credit card offer with a 45% interest rate buried in the fine print. He scanned the contract, rewrote it to include 0% interest, no fees, and penalty clauses if the bank changed the terms, then mailed it back. The bank signed it without reading. A court upheld his version. He counter-sued for 24 million rubles. The bank settled. He got a special debit card.

The Beatles wrote into their contracts for American concerts that they would not play in front of segregated audiences.

Dennis Schroder was offered an $84 million contract by the Lakers. He turned it down - he thought he was worth $100 million. Then his performance tanked. The big offers vanished. He eventually signed with the Celtics for $5.9 million. He paid $78 million to bet on himself.

$700 million. That's what Shohei Ohtani's contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers is worth - the richest deal in sports history. But right now, he takes home just $2 million per year. He deferred $680 million of his own salary so the Dodgers could use that money to sign other players and build a championship team around him.