The Kansas City Star
Sam Gould, who ran Sam’s Stadium Parking at Municipal Stadium for 22 years and became a fixture for Kansas City baseball fans, died Sunday at the age of 98.
Gould grew up across the street from the now-demolished stadium at 22nd and Brooklyn and as a child sold newspapers there, worked as a bat boy, cleaned up, sold popcorn and peanuts and fetched sandwiches for players. He remembered Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and the rest of the New York Yankees coming to play an exhibition game after a World Series.
“I’ve been a baseball nut since day one,” he told The Star in 2014.