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Take Us Out To The Ballgame!

KCUR | By Brian Ellison,
Danie Alexander, Reginald David, Mackenzie Martin
Published April 1, 2021 at 5:18 PM CDT

Segment 1, beginning at 1:00: The Kansas City Royals kick off the season with a restricted number of fans in attendance and COVID-19 protocols firmly in place.

The wait is over for baseball aficionados. It’s Opening Day for the Kansas City Royals and a limited number of spectators are back in the stands. As a result, the Royals organization is taking extra steps to keep fans safe. "I'm a fan first and foremost," says owner John Sherman. "How do we give our fans who have not been here for so long a great experience?"

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Brian Ellison
Brian Ellison is substitute host of Central Standard and Up To Date and has served in a variety of roles at KCUR since 2008. He has been acting producer and associate producer of Up To Date and was acting producer of The Walt Bodine Show. A member of the Religion Newswriters Association, he also contributes occasionally to KCUR news coverage. Even before joining the KCUR staff, he was a producer and frequent guest on Up To Date's "Religion Roundtable," as well as a committed listener and volunteer.
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Danie Alexander
Danette (Danie) Alexander first came to KCUR in 2007 as an intern for Up to Date after completing her B.A. in Communications at the University of Missouri – Kansas City. After her KCUR internship was completed, Danie continued to spend her mornings assisting senior producer Stephen Steigman as a volunteer with the show. Her radio experience also includes stints with public radio's New Letters on the Air as a broadcast engineer and on local public radio as host of a weekly overnight call-in show.
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Reginald David
Mackenzie Martin
mackenzie@wxpr.org
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