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Originally Posted by InCider
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how true mate....each American baseball player has an additional contract with each baseball card manufacturer...
Topps used to be the kingpin of the industry...and might still be...20 years ago they used to pay each Major Leaguer...80k USD for the rights to print their mugs on little cardboard collectibles like this....
...don't know what the factories pay the players now, as I haven't been interested in that scene for a long time.
Endorsements?...forgetaboutit...Michael Jordan still makes an incredible amount of bread through endorsements...used to be upwards of 30 million a year...have no idea how much these guys make now.
Have you seen all those Hollywood stars with their mugs on the back of magazines with a Rolex on their wrist? how much do those guys get for that ad?
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