In these waning days of the 2016 Major League Baseball season, we thoroughly enjoyed Tim Cooney’s recounting of the annals of Aspen baseball. The article is part of a broader series on Aspen history being written by the freelancer for both the Aspen Times and website Aspen Journalism.
There are a lot of fun media tidbits in Cooney’s archival comb-through. Things like when the Aspen Times first reported on a baseball game (June 4, 1881) and how, in 1912, some residents objected to the idea of a park being converted into a baseball diamond because “the cheers and rootings will disturb any church services or jar the religious scruples of citizens.”
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