Colorado Springs Baseball History Honored

MT. PLEASANT, S.C. - April 24, 2013 - PRLog -- New to Arcadia Publishing’s popular Images of Sports series is Baseball in Colorado Springs by local author Roger P. Hadix. This pictorial history boasts more than 200 vintage images and provides readers with a unique opportunity to reconnect with the history that shaped their community.

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.

Highlights of Baseball in Colorado Springs include:
•   Intercollegiate Baseball
•   The Colorado Springs Millionaires
•   The Colorado Springs City League
•   Harlem Globetrotters Softball & “Black Baseball”
•   The Colorado Springs Sky Sox

Available at area bookstores, independent retailers, and online retailers, or through Arcadia Publishing at (888)-313-2665 or online.

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