Aspen Silver Kings - Colorado - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Women's T-Shirt Size:3XL representing a city still decades

representing a city still decades away from becoming a major league town

Torch lighting ceremonies and conch shell calls greeted guests each evening

They carried the identity of working people who shaped wood by day and cheered baseball by night

A hand-drawn white illustration depicts two hands pressing stripped wire ends together

Aspen Silver Kings - Colorado - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Women's T-Shirt Size:3XL representing a city still decadesThe Silver Kings took the field in 1889, the same year a young Aspen was riding a silver mining boom that briefly made it one of Colorado's wealthiest towns. Funded in part by mining magnate David Hyman, who donated the land for the ballpark, the club joined the independent Colorado State League and played to crowds of miners and merchants. They finished third in the standings before the franchise quietly folded mid season on July 29 of that same