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Baseball in Colorado Springs

By Roger P. Hadix

Book information

Publisher
Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Year
2013
ISBN
9781439642207, 9780738599540, 2013934877
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
21 MB (22487811 bytes)
Series
Images of Baseball
Pages
\0
Time added
2023-01-13 15:22:28
History; Nonfiction; HIS000000

Description

From Boulevard Park and Memorial Field to Security Service Field (formerly Sky Sox Stadium), Colorado Springs is a baseball town. Professional baseball arrived in 1901; the Brown Bombers, a semiprofessional black team, came in the 1940s; and the original Sky Sox won the Western League Championship in 1953, 1955, and 1958. Local players such as Ed Kent, Bill Everitt, Jim Landis, Sam Hairston, Connie Johnson, Vinny Castilla, and Todd Helton have made it to the major leagues. Rich Goose Gossage, a Colorado Springs native, went directly from Class A ball to the Chicago White Sox, starting his hall-of-fame career in 1972.

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