Redbirds, 901 FC prepare to kick off new season with COVID-19 guidelines
Redbirds, 901 FC prepare to kickoff new season By Briseida Holguin | April 6, 2021 at 8:30 PM CDT - Updated April 6 at 9:46 PM
With the Memphis Redbirds first game scheduled for May 4 and 901 FC beginning June 15 Craig Unger, president of both teams says fans will be allowed to attend.
“Currently our plan is for about 30% capacity,” said Unger. “AutoZone park holds about 10,000 people so we’re between 3,350 and that’s all provided 6-foot social distancing.”
Unger says as game day approaches specific guidelines will be released, and as vaccination numbers increase he hopes those guidelines will change.
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Craig Unger has written extensively on Donald Trump, publishing a best seller on the US property tycoon called House of Trump, House of Putin . He has recently released another blockbuster, titled American Kompromat , in which he investigates alleged links between Mr Trump and the Russian secret services. Mr Trump has always angrily denied any such allegations, telling journalists at a White House press conference in January 2019 that he never worked for Russia and to even
In an exclusive interview with Express.co.uk, the author characterised Mr Trump s politics as tending towards fascism.
He also argued that the Republican Party had to turn its back on Donald Trump and Trumpism if it was to have a political future.
Mr Unger said: I have always been wary of attributing terms, but yes I think his work is fascism in terms that it is authoritarian, racist and anti-democratic. There are many ways to define fascism. What he was doing was dictatorial and he was using every loophole in our government to dismantle the checks and balances that assure at least some fairness.
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Play-by-play man spent 20 seasons in Memphis, 34 in Minor League Baseball MEMPHIS, Tennessee From the inaugural game in AutoZone Park history, through the most recent season two decades later, Steve Selby’s voice has been a constant presence describing Memphis Redbirds action on the airwaves. After 20 seasons in Memphis,
Play-by-play man spent 20 seasons in Memphis, 34 in Minor League Baseball
MEMPHIS, Tennessee From the inaugural game in AutoZone Park history, through the most recent season two decades later, Steve Selby’s voice has been a constant presence describing Memphis Redbirds action on the airwaves.
After 20 seasons in Memphis, spanning over 4,500 games, and 34 seasons overall in Minor League Baseball, Selby has announced his retirement from the broadcast booth.