The Silver Kings took the field in 1889, the same year a young Aspen was riding a silver-mining boom that briefly made it one of Colorado's wealthiest towns. Funded in part by mining magnate David Hyman, who donated the land for the ballpark, the club joined the independent Colorado State League and played to crowds of miners and merchants. They finished third in the standings before the franchise quietly folded mid-season on July 29 of that same year. Aspen would field teams again in 1895, 1896, and 1898, but the Silver Kings, the first of them, never returned.

Part of our Defunct Baseball collection, inspired by the vintage Minor League teams of yesteryear.