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The last ‘ticket’: Royals fan’s family says goodbye with a creative funeral souvenir

Who knows how many hours of baseball Michael Jimenez watched on TV? Hundreds? Thousands?

It’s certainly possible for a longtime youth baseball coach and ardent fan of the game whose family jokes that he watched baseball 24/7.

His son Chris Jimenez will never forget the last baseball game he watched with his father, a General Motors retiree.

It was on Saturday night. Game 7. The National League Championship game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Milwaukee Brewers.

They watched it together in a hospital room at St. Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City.

After he got home, Chris got a phone call that his father had died.