Where do the "losing" T-shirts go?
When a team wins a World Series, shirts and hats are passed out on the field, seconds after the final out. They're on the shelves of the team shop immediately. The same happens in other sports, too.
It's not a T-shirt printer working a lot of overtime, either. Hundreds of shirts and hats are pressed well ahead of time, and there's no guesswork involved. They do them well in advance for all of the teams still alive in the playoffs.
But while actress Alyssa Milano - a huge Dodgers fan - has her own clothing line on MLB.com, she can't get her hands on any Dodgers World Series Champions 2009 T-shirts. (Nor would she want any - she certainly would want the Dodgers to earn it.) The gear is on its way to Indonesia, Zambia, El Salvador, Nicaragua or Romania. There would be a black market for them if they stayed in the United States, and sending the shirts and hats abroad is the best for both the leagues and for World Vision, a humanitarian organization.
"Most people who receive these jerseys and T-shirts would not know who the Yankees and the Phillies are," Rich Stearns of World Vision told the Associated Press. "They are just looking at these as new clothes."
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We recently did a brief interview with a rep at World Vision to learn about how our company could donate t-shirts. For other businesses who have excess t-shirts besides the NFL/Major League Baseball you can set up to donate to World Vision as long as you have at least 100 shirts and there are no inappropriate designs or bad words. They prefer kids t-shirts over very large shirts just because of the huge need of kids. If World Vision wants to send your products overseas then they will request that the donor to pay the expense of the distribution. What is great about the World Vision system is that they deliver the goods to people who actually need it rather than a 3rd party and for many kids it is the 1ST brand new shirt they have ever received.