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1946 Colorado champions in the Victory League, M&O Cigars team, Denver. Back row, from left: Lee Grissom (pitcher and major league player), Art Unger (left field), Bob Cairns (first base), Dick Hotton (third base), Sam Leornson, Bob Petersen (pitcher), Beau Bell (right field and major league player), Darrell Gessert (pitcher), Ray Cairns (utility). Front row, from left: Jim Garramone (manager and former manager of the Coors Brewing team), George Anderson (shortstop), Bob Justman (utility), Al Kavanagh (pitcher), Jim Queen (catcher), Gene Ater (second base), Jim Conboy (pitcher), Leonard “Lefty” Hawkins (center field), Bennie Pister, Ron Garramone (bat boy and son of manager Jim Garramone). Courtesy Robert Garramone, History Colorado CIAPA Collection. PCCL5937 In 1946 M&O Cigars were manufactured by the Cuban Cigar Company at 1354 Larimer Street. Established around 1900, the Cuban Cigar Company in 1946 was owned by Samuel Levinson and Eva Levinson (widow of Samuel’s older brother Louis). Louis and Samuel’s Russian Yiddish parents had emigrated from Russia in 1885. After many years in New York, the family came west, settling in Denver around 1890.