Liberal Bee Jays to unveil Kaiser Carlile statue

The Liberal Bee Jays summer baseball team will debut a statue of 9-year-old bat boy Kaiser Carlile at its home opener June 3 in Liberal.

Kaiser died Aug. 2, a day after being hit in the head by a practice swing near the Bee Jays’ dugout.

Roy Allen, director of baseball operations for the Jayhawk League club, said the life-sized statue will reside at the stadium as a memory of the impact the boy and his death had on the Bee Jays’ community.

Liberal opens at home that night at 7 p.m. against the Kansas Cannons.

This story was originally published May 16, 2016 at 1:39 PM with the headline "Liberal Bee Jays to unveil Kaiser Carlile statue."