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Eagle baseball team, in uniform, seated on bleachers, 1916. This team played the Denver Bears in 1914, losing in the last inning 5-7. Until then, the Eagles had the game tied 5-5.
Front row: Eddie Place, catcher; Bill Nimon [died of influenza 1918].
2d row: Left to Right: Leo Carey [rancher]; unidentified from Minturn; Roy Dodson [big league ball player, store owner]; Frank Stapp.
Back row: Left to Right: Lloyd Carey [rancher]; Omar Howland...
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"Earl and Hollis Brooks both loved baseball and one of the first things they did after coming to McCoy was to organize a baseball team from local talent. They whipped up a good team in no time and played other small towns. ... When the men came in for the construction of the Dotsero Cutoff Earl didn't let any grass grow under his feet until he had two teams organized among them and a diamond laid out on his place near the bridge." -- McCoy Memoirs,...
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The Eagle High School basketball team, 1937.
Back, from left: John Robertson, Elmer Rochford, Duane Larsen, Jim Nimon, Robert McDivvitt
Front, from left: Bill Nimon, Joe Walters, Donald Knupp, Donald Van Horn
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
