He sold it in the early 1970s for a sizable profit. Kroenke’s first step towards building a business empire occurred around the same time he took a loan from his father worth $1,500 and purchased a local clothing store, as noted by Forbes. He studied at the University of Missouri while working as a busboy at the dining hall of a college. As a child, he helped his father’s lumber business by sweeping floors before he was allowed to maintain accounting books. Louis Cardinals, Stan Musial, and Enos Slaughter, grew up in Mora, Missouri, a small town 100 miles from Kansas City.
Enos Stanley Kroenke, named after two great players from St.
