McCoy earns a high six-figure income off the field from memorabilia, appearances and endorsement deals with Nike, Zenith helmets and more.
After several years of developing marketing newsletters and Web content for corporate clients like Sony and First Union Small Business Capital, Kaufman saw a need for a watchdog publication in the sports memorabilia field and started publishing Sweet Spot.
Inside, you'll find a full-size reproduction of a dugout leading out to a field, interactive displays, and memorabilia, including a bat archive.
"Prior to O. J.'s criminal issue, he was a player like Joe Montana, a fan favorite, well liked," said Ross Tannenbaum, owner of Dreams Inc., the parent company in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., of a chain of about 30 Field of Dreams sports memorabilia shops.
The V.I.P. package was to include a private session with Messi, on-field seating and signed memorabilia.
His locker at Citi Field is a repository for "Star Wars" memorabilia sent to him by fans, who may not have the chance to salute him next season.
We're not prompted by pollsters or gently guided by external forces; if our field of interest happens to be Nazi memorabilia or midget porn, we're happy to tell a search engine.
Already the museum's collection of memorabilia picked up from the fields includes guns, badges, uniforms, pens, and even a radio or two.
As the years passed, he and Ralph Branca, the Dodgers pitcher who threw the strike that Thomson dispatched into the Polo Grounds' left-field stands, appeared together at baseball dinners and memorabilia sales.
Slowly and steadily, fans stopped by the Mets Amazinn Memorabilia display located near the Ebbets Club on the field level of Citi Field.
After nine years, he is now recognized as one of the field's foremost authorities on autograph and one-of-a-kind sports memorabilia.
