At a press conference on Tuesday, the NFL Hall of Famer and head football coach of Colorado revealed to the media his early misadventures with baseball souvenirs after noticing a reporter sporting a Kansas City Royals hat.
In the third grade, I was hustler. I used to bring my small sock and skip school. When they hit home runs, I used to beat everyone to the ball and sell the balls to fans while the game was going on.
I hustled like that. I used to make it a point to bring the best ball for my teacher. stated Sanders.
Connie Sanders, Sanders’ mother, and her husband Willie Knight raised him in Fort Myers, Florida, where Sanders was born. Around that time, when he was eight years old, Sanders also started playing baseball, but his entrepreneurial endeavors continued. Sanders made the deliberate decision to amass the memorabilia from the Fort Myers Royals spring training games.
At the time, Sanders cited Amos Otis and George Brett, two former Royals players, as his main role inspirations.
