| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.4

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Colorado: A Sports History. By James Whiteside. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 1999. xviii, 494 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-87081-550-4.)

As a student-athlete in northern Colorado in the 1970s, I spent my youth cheering for the Denver Rockets of the American Basketball Association, the Denver Spurs of the International Hockey Association, the minor league Denver Bears of baseball's American Association, and, of course, the Denver Broncos. Although my early religious training ended when we got two Broncos season tickets, in sports-crazy Colorado, putting on orange and going to a Broncos game with seventy-seven thousand other fans probably was a religious experience. All of those memories came back while reading James Whiteside's Colorado: A Sports History. Writing primarily for the sports fan, Whiteside covers the history of the state's most popular sports from nineteenth-century Native American games to the Colorado Avalanche's Stanley Cup hockey season. Along the way, he contextualizes the sporting cultures that played and prospered in the Centennial State. . . .

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