aww. cool story about the KC Royals
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“I wanted to share something I saw during the Royals BP. My friends and I had went early, we watched you guys warm up. We stood in the left field seats and judged balls getting hit towards us —pretty fun to do if you’ve never done it. Anyways, there were a few KC players near the wall shagging fly balls, doing normal stuff. But then they started tossing a few balls to some of the little kids with gloves. They encouraged them to toss it back and thus a game of catch began between little kids (decked out in O’s gear) and KC players. This went on for a good twenty minutes. There was one in particular — Scott Downs — that was having a lot of fun with it.
“These little kids ate it up. Playing catch with MLB players, man, what a memory. They treated those kids so well, and none of them had any KC gear on. I turned to my buddy and said ‘you know, it’s really hard to hate this team.’ And that’s the truth. That was really cool, something I’ve never seen.
Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/ball-star/article2696524.html#storylink=cpy
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