of his wife, who died in 1995. Awards and honors 1932 – Distinguished Eagle Scout Award as a member of Boy Scout Troop and Ship 100 at Faxon School in Kansas City, Missouri 1968 – Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement 1993 – Kauffman Stadium, home to the Kansas City Royals of Major League Baseball, named after Ewing Kauffman 2018 – Kansas Sports Hall of Fame See also List of entrepreneurs List of people from Johnson County, Kansas References External links Baseball Hall of Fame – 2008 Veterans Committee candidate profile Kauffman eVenturing The Kauffman Fellows Program The iBridge Network 1916 births 1993 deaths 20th-century American businesspeople American chairpersons of corporations American chemical industry businesspeople American company founders American health care businesspeople United States Navy personnel of World War II American sports executives and administrators Businesspeople from Kansas Businesspeople from Missouri Businesspeople in the pharmaceutical industry Deaths from cancer in Kansas Deaths from bone cancer Education activists Kansas City Royals owners Patrons of schools People from Mission Hills, Kansas People from Cass County, Missouri Sportspeople from Kansas City, Missouri 20th-century American philanthropists Philanthropists from the Kansas City metropolitan area