[1] Sanders threw and batted right-handed, stood 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m) tall and weighed 200 pounds (91 kg).

He was then kept on Kansas City's Major League roster at the outset of the 1965 season under the terms of the bonus rules then in force.

During that time, he appeared in his only Major League game, on April 13, 1965, as a pinch runner in an 11–4 loss to the Detroit Tigers.

He played in the Red Sox, New York Mets and Kansas City Royals farm systems through 1968 before quitting the pro game.

During Sanders' 20-year-long tenure, Nebraska had nine 40-victory seasons, made the NCAA Division I baseball tournament three times, and produced 92 professional players, including 1995 Major League Baseball first-round draft choice Darin Erstad and long time Texas Rangers first baseman Pete O'Brien.