The Denver Bears (1955-62, 1969-82)
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The second incarnation of the Denver Bears (1969-82) was a Triple A team that would change its name in 1983 to the Denver Zephyrs. This would be the only professional baseball I'd know in Colorado until the Colorado Rockies expansion team came into being (1992). Unfortunately, outside of some early highs (the Blake St. Bombers, for example), they've never been able to capture my affections as a club. Perhaps it's the regional tone of the team name... Baseball is, to an extent, about place. Colorado, for me, evokes many connotations and provokes a number of complicated feelings. Denver, on the other hand, is something more purely concrete.
Of course, it could just be the purple and black color scheme.
Enjoy retirement Vinny!
Or could it have been Dante Bichette's outfielding prowess that sowered you on the Rockies?
Hey, if the OFers were meant to be mobile, they wouldn't have been grown so big.
I just noticed I left my thoughts unfinished in the first post there. I meant to wrap up my ideas on place with this: "It seems to me, by calling themselves the Colorado Rockies, they were trying to be (or marketed as) our team, instead of inviting Coloradans to identify with them." (And insert shot at hideous uniform design here.)
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