Kansas team says batboy Kaiser Carlile was 'their little spark plug'

From his bespectacled, freckled face all the way down to his black cleats kicking up Kansas dirt, 9-year-old "superfan" Kaiser Carlile boasted only one status this summer, hustling to grab baseball bats for the Bee Jays' squad 

"With the permission of the family, and with much sorrow and a very broken heart, I regretfully inform everyone that Kaiser Carlile passed away earlier this evening," the post announced. Jim Parks has been coming to the NBC World Series for 60 years

A beloved 9-year-old batboy for a summer collegiate baseball team died Sunday, one day after he was struck in the head with a bat. Kaiser Carlile idolized the Liberal Bee Jays from Liberal, Kansas. During the team's National 

Some might question why the Bee Jays were even taking the field when their bespectacled, baseball-loving batboy, Kaiser Carlile, died Sunday after being struck in the head with a bat a day earlier, but it was a decision that wasn't made flippantly

was simply doing something he loved." Kaiser Carlile, a bat boy for the Liberal Bee Jays of Liberal, Kansas, was running to bring a bat to a player after an out on Saturday in a game against the San Diego Waves in Wichita.