Colorado Springs Millionaires Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Colorado central league That one season was the

That one season was the whole story

The Infants nickname is likely from the style of the era where a team with lots of younger players would be named the something like the infants or babes

The 1942 season ended on May 30 when the league folded for the war

but the name itself does some of the work a larger history might provide: in a league saturated with textile and tobacco references

but not make it through a full season again

Colorado Springs Millionaires Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Colorado central league That one season was theFew teams have carried a more honest nickname than the Colorado Springs Millionaires, named for the Cripple Creek gold fortunes that built Colorado Springs, Colorado, though the franchise itself was never on solid financial footing. The club joined the Western League in 1901 under Billy Hulen, who served as owner, manager, and starting shortstop all at once. Hulen threw left handed, and remains the last man to play shortstop regularly as a lefty in