As professional athletes are traded from team to team, various in-kind and monetary transactions for certain jersey numbers are becoming more common. Given the size of some of the recent payments, these stories have transitioned from relative obscurity to mainstream sports news. In this article, the authors provide two areas where these kinds of interactions can enhance the learning experience in undergraduate microeconomics or undergraduate labor and sports economics. These are (a) simple, illustrative ways of discussing the importance of markets (and related concepts), and (b) an interesting extension of G. S. Becker's (1975) human capital theory. (Contains 1 table.)