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Olathe team, managed by Arthur “Art” Loper, at the Denver Post Tournament, Merchants Park, Denver, 1925. Players include Johnny “Kid” West (first row, fourth from left; played left field and pitcher), Oscar Roatcap (standing, far right; played first base), R. Roatcap (center field), Walt Honeycutt (first row, third from right; pitcher), Joe Mills (catcher), Ramsey (second base), Holland (shortstop), Evans (third base), Williams (right field), Ament (pitcher), Greer (pitcher), Atkins (catcher), Hyatt (utility), Grantham (utility), Anderson (utility). Courtesy Jay Sanford. Arthur “Art” Loper (1888–1975) grew up on a farm in Montrose, Colorado. The son of Isaac and Emma Loper, he was a former player for the Olathe Granger and part of the 1915 championship ball team that beat Telluride. His fellow players included the Roatcap brothers; Loper would manage them in 1925. According to the Montrose Daily Press, the 1915 championship game between Telluride and Olathe “was the worst slaughter in baseball history,” with Olathe winning 19 to 4. No article about baseball history in Colorado would be complete without a mention of the Denver Post Tournament. Established in Denver in 1915, the tournament became the biggest baseball event in the United States outside Major League Baseball. In 1934 the tournament made history as the first major venue of the twentieth century to bring professional black and white teams together for official league games. Frequently referred to as “the Little World Series” and the “Western World Series,” the tournament ran ten days to two weeks and attracted teams from across the country. Over its thirty-three-year history (the last tournament was held in 1947), countless major and minor league players participated.