Are you ready to strikeout poverty with Athletes Brand?

GROUP 1: ENDED MAY 3rd, 2017

ARIZONA | CINCINNATI | CLEVELAND | MILWAUKEE | SEATTLE

•CAUSE•

Over 40 big leaguers will be backing K Poverty this season.

PROCEEDS BENEFIT STRIKING OUT POVERTY

We want to see baseball end poverty in the Dominican Republic. 

"With Striking Out Poverty, we've teamed up with players, fans and teams to provide for some of the most urgent needs in nine of the most vulnerable communities." 

- Striking Out Poverty

Follow Food for the Hungry

Food for the Hungry presents 

Striking out Poverty

Since its inception in 1971, Food for the Hungry has been a major player in the fight against extreme poverty. Their work is largely based on the belief that each and every individual is of worth, and they personify this notion by working directly with the most vulnerable people on earth for purposeful relief and development.

Food for the Hungry offer access to life-changing resources such as clean water, medical aid, food, equal educational opportunities to girls and boys, vocational training and empowerment amid unimaginable hardships. Through their dedication, work with local leaders and overall life-altering solutions, they graduate communities in an average of 12 years, which means that the communities are then capable of sustaining themselves for years to come.

Through their Striking Out Poverty initiative, Food for the Hungry wants to end poverty in the Dominican Republic once and for all. 

•TESTIMONIALS•

PLAYERS RELEASING EXCLUSIVE TEAM COLOR  T's

RELEASE SCHEDULE

GROUP 1 AVAILABLE - April 19-May 3 (Begin shipping to customers 5/17/17)

Arizona: Chris Herrmann (C), Brian Matusz (P)
Seattle: Mike Freeman (INF)
Milwaukee: Chase Anderson (P)
Cleveland: Yan Gomes (C), Trevor Bauer (P), Daniel Robertson (OF)
Cincinnati: Scooter Gennett (INF)

GROUP 2 AVAILABLE - May 3 - May 17 (Begin shipping to customers 5/31/17)

Miami: Dee Gordon (OF)
Philadelphia: Tommy Joseph (C), Cameron Rupp (C)
Pittsburgh: Gregory Polanco (OF), Starling Marte (OF)
Los Angeles (Anaheim)
Los Angeles: Yasmani Grandal (C)

GROUP 3 AVAILABLE - May 17-May 31 (Begin shipping to customers 6/14/17)

New York (Bronx): Aaron Judge (OF), Mason Williams (OF), Rob Refsnyder (UTIL)
New York (Queens): Seth Lugo (P)
Boston
Chicago (North Side)
Chicago (South Side): Cody Asche (OF)

GROUP 4 AVAILABLE - May 31-June 14 (Begin shipping to customers 6/28/17)

Oakland: Liam Hendriks (P)
San Francisco: Johnny Cueto (P)
San Diego
Kansas City
St. Louis

GROUP 5 AVAILABLE - June 14-June 28 (Begin shipping to customers 7/12/17)

Detroit
Houston
Texas
Colorado
Atlanta

GROUP 6 AVAILABLE - June 28-July 12 (Begin shipping to customers 7/26/17)

•DESIGN•

The goal was to add unique features recognizable only to baseball players, keep it simple, and make the mission clear.

The backwards K is screen printed with a fade to resemble chalk lines like on a baseball field. The backwards K also represents the Strikeout Looking" symbol of the backwards K in baseball statistics. Though it does not mean that poverty is going down without a fight, the backwards K was simply chosen instead of the K swinging symbol because it's more recognizable as being baseball specific.

This design will be available in every big league team color as a collectors item, and represented by select players from each team throughout the 2017 season. 

The general K Poverty T's currently for sale  will ship upon order, unless item is said to be on backorder or out of stock.

The first print round for Group 1, as shown above, will begin on May 4th, 2017. The shirts will begin shipping 10 business days after the campaign ends (May 3rd, 2017), meaning they will be shipped out from our shipping center no later than 5/17/17. This allows us to reinvest the sales into focusing on trying to get Striking Out Poverty in front of 20 million people in two weeks. Also, because of the high cost to manufacture our shirts at the quality we produce, making the shirts after the two week campaign allows us to be able to afford the costs of doing the shirts for a cause as every limited edition shirt is manufactured when the campaign ends making it a very limited edition design.