When the Royals won the American League Championship in mid-October, Selim Henderson got busy buying T-shirts.
A lot of T-shirts.
“I bought about 30 dozen to start with,” Henderson says.
He set up a roadside stand in south Kansas City, and sales went so well, he bought another 30 dozen.
His best seller? The Royal Flush.
“That has five of the players on cards – ace, king, queen, jack, ten – and that’s the winning hand in poker,” Henderson says.
Henderson says the weekend’s losses to the Giants made his sales plummet. Tuesday night, he’d marked down prices to $10 a shirt.
But after last night’s win …
“Hopefully, sales will go up. And of course, you’ll be in the Game 7 of a World Series, so that’s huge. And if they win the next one, then that would be a major payday,” Henderson says.
And if the Royals lose?
“Oh, I’m gonna have a lot of T-shirts to eat,” Henderson says.
So for the sake of his business, as well as support of the home team, the entrepreneur has a message for the boys in blue:
“Go Royals, Go!”
