Ferolito joined with partner Don Vultaggio in the 1970s to establish a Brooklyn-based discount beer and soda delivery company, starting with a used Volkswagen bus and adding trucks as the business grew.
The company ventured into flavored seltzer and its own brand of malt liquor in its early years.
[2] Ferolito, a resident of the Short Hills section of Millburn, New Jersey, was the target of a lawsuit that claimed that he had been negligent when taking a mulligan at an area golf course and struck another golfer with his ball, knocking him unconscious.
[3] The incident occurred at the 16th hole of the East Orange Golf Course, where Ferolito and his partner had joined together with another pair of players.
[4] While the general legal principle is that accidents and injuries are an expected result of sports activities and that individuals assume that risk when they participate, the attorney for the person hit by Ferolito's errant shot argued that "anticipating that someone is going to hit a mulligan at point-blank range is not a standard part of the game".