Learn about the history of the Greeley Grays baseball team, which started in 1925 with Latino workers sponsored by the Great Western Sugar Company. The team became known for their skill and other teams were reluctant to face them.
As far back as 1876, they played ball in the farm fields on crudely made diamonds. But they really got going in 1925, when Latino workers came to Colorado to pick sugar beets. The Great Western Sugar Company sponsored the Grays, to give the workers a way to have fun on Sundays.The Grays players lived in the Spanish Colony in Greeley, which was housing for workers from the Great Western Sugar Company .
They formed a league along with other teams in the area – Fort Lupton, Hudson, LaSalle, and even a team from Colorado State Teachers College, now the University of Northern Colorado. is based largely on research done by Lopez and his wife, Jody. Museum Manager Dr. Chris Bowles said the huge presence of Latino ballplayers in the major leagues now started with the Grays, who got pretty good. Other teams, according to Bowles, “didn’t want to face the Greeley Grays. Nobody wanted to face the Greeley Grays. They were just too good
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