Leadville Angels - Colorado - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Women's T-Shirt rayne flanked by orange ribbon banners

flanked by orange ribbon banners displaying "19" and "85" with hop branch accents and three small stars above

where the ocean met midcentury ambition

ROMO sounds like a pharmaceutical advertised during a golf tournament

Some clubs lasted decades

above block text reading "1914

Leadville Angels - Colorado - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Women's T-Shirt rayne flanked by orange ribbon bannersBy 1896, Leadville was already past its silver rush peak, but the high altitude mining town still had enough fight in it to field a ball club. The Angels played a short summer season in the independent Colorado State League, going 5 3 under manager Harry Grier and finishing second in a six team field that ran from May 2 to July 15. Their rivals that year included the Aspen Miners, the Pueblo Rovers, and the Denver Gulfs (small towns with big league