‘Little World Series of the West’ integrates with players from Negro League | Aug. 1, 1934 | Colorado’s Top 150 Sports Moments
Happy birthday, Colorado — and Colorado sports.
Leading into the state’s 150th birthday Aug. 1, The Denver Gazette has partnered with the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame to publicize the definitive list of Colorado’s top 150 sports moments.
Colorado Sports Hall of Fame historian Dave Plati and a committee of 10 compiled and will release the list every week until the No. 1 moment on July 31. Plati and Broncos icon Jim Saccomano will unveil the list weekly on a Colorado Sports Hall of Fame podcast at coloradosports.org/podcast/.
Today’s top moment in Colorado sports history:
No. 129
Aug. 1, 1934
The 19th edition of the baseball tournament that came to be known as the “Little World Series of the West” was integrated for the first time. Organizers wanted the tournament to feature the most competitive teams. Thus, they invited Negro League players to participate for the first time, starting with the Kansas City Monarchs (the Negro League champions) and the Denver White Elephants. The White Elephants featured the only Colorado-born player in the Negro League, Theodore “Bubbles” Anderson, a 2025 Colorado Sports Hall of Fame inductee. The tournament started in 1915 and attracted the top semi-pro teams in the sport until it was discontinued in the mid-1940s.
—Dave Plati, Colorado Sports Hall of Fame historian
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