211/366 The spoils of a visit to a favorite baseball card in Denver. It was a shop I visited in my youth, and sure enough they have packs from my youth still around — for a dime apiece. (Taken with Instagram)

126/366 There isn’t a better way to spend my furlough day than cleaning out the desk — and what should I find? Why it’s the letter offering me a job at the dearly departed Rocky Mountain News (RIP). It days my start date is Dec. 18, 11 days after my wedding. What a pleasant surprise. (Taken with instagram)

Sixty-six years before Eric Young hit the first regular season major-league homer in the time zone’s history there was baseball at altitude. I wonder if Paige complained about Gehrig hitting in the thin air.

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Lou Gehrig at Denver’s Merchants Park, 1927. During the early twentieth century, legends including Gehrig, Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, and Babe Ruth played in the Denver Post Tournament.