Royals hit home run for community service
Alexia Lang
Issue date: 9/28/09 Section: Sports
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Last Friday and Saturday during Fan Appreciation Weekend, the team invited the nearly 100 Jumpstart Kansas City team members from Rockhurst University and UMKC, their families and/or friends out to enjoy a good, old-fashioned baseball game for free.
Jumpstart is a program that places college students in schools to mentor underprivileged 3, 4 and 5-year-olds to get them up-to-speed and ready to enter kindergarten.
The Jumpstart members root-root-rooted for the home team as the Royals took on the Minnesota Twins.
While the men in blue did not come out on top, the team and the fans gave the Twins an experience to go home and chat about.
A couple memorable moments happened on Saturday night.
The Royals were the first to score, smacking two home runs out of the park back-to-back during the second inning.
Later, an animated, verbal disagreement about a call between the Head Coach of the Twins and the umpire left the Royals fans springing out of their seats with cheers of joy when the ump explained (in not so many words), that the Twins could just go home if they don't like the way we do things.
To make the weekend just that much sweeter, 20 lucky fans received prizes at each game.
Who wouldn't want ice cream for a year or an X-Box?
For those people who go to the games just for the ambiance, the hot dog race was all-too-funny.
The relish took the lead by far with mustard coming in second despite her shoe falling off and ketchup coming in dead last.
Looked like her heart just wasn't in it.
As we say goodbye to our Royals for this year with many thanks for all the memorable moments, the Jumpstart Kansas City team can't wait to sing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" next year.
alang@unews.com
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