{"id":2216814,"date":"2025-12-30T17:29:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T17:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2216814"},"modified":"2025-12-30T17:29:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T17:29:58","slug":"union-station-makes-pitch-for-royals-to-move-to-a-downtown-ballpark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/union-station-makes-pitch-for-royals-to-move-to-a-downtown-ballpark\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Station makes pitch for Royals to move to a downtown ballpark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-facilities \">K.C.\u2019s Union Station was \u201calit in blue on Saturday night\u201d in honor of the Royals, and the station\u2019s social media team \u201cshared a photo and made an impassioned case\u201d for the team to move into a downtown ballpark, according to Pete Grathoff of the K.C. STAR. Union Station wrote on X, \u201cThe time has come for downtown baseball, and a return to where the story first began&#8230; in the heart of Kansas City, where we gather to celebrate its triumphs, traditions, and most cherished moments.\u201d It continued, \u201cA downtown ballpark offers something special &#8212; an exciting atmosphere that draws together friends, families, and fans in moments of shared joy. It strengthens community, celebrates teamwork, and reminds us of the simple beauty of the game. It\u2019s time to welcome downtown baseball home &#8212; once again, for all of Kansas City.\u201d The Royals will be leaving Kauffman Stadium <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/12\/23\/royals-miss-deadline-for-kansas-ballpark-deal-as-talks-stall\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/12\/23\/royals-miss-deadline-for-kansas-ballpark-deal-as-talks-stall\/\">in a few years<\/a>. There have been a few downtown ballpark ideas mentioned, \u201cincluding one at Washington Square Park.\u201d That ballpark would be \u201clocated north of Crown Center and east of Union Station\u201d (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/sports\/spt-columns-blogs\/for-petes-sake\/article314015267.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/sports\/spt-columns-blogs\/for-petes-sake\/article314015267.html\"><i>K.C. STAR, 12\/29<\/i><\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.sportsbusinessjournal.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>K.C.\u2019s Union Station was \u201calit in blue on Saturday night\u201d in honor of the Royals, and the station\u2019s social media team \u201cshared a photo and made an impassioned case\u201d for the team to move into a downtown ballpark, according to Pete Grathoff of the K.C. STAR. Union Station wrote on X, \u201cThe time has come [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[21849,25866],"class_list":["post-2216814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-royalty","tag-baseball","tag-mlb"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2216814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2216815,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216814\/revisions\/2216815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2216814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2216814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2216814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}