By Kevin Beaty, Denverite
DENVER — The year was 1989 and Marshall Fogel, lifelong Denver resident and local lawyer, was visiting Chicago when he wandered into a massive sports convention.
“God,” he said, “it was like walking in heaven.”
He picked up a few baseball items and, soon, his love affair with relics of the game had become more than a hobby.
In the years following, Fogel amassed a collection that’s become perhaps the most complete (and valuable) in the country. Now, many of his prized photographs, tickets, bats and gloves are on display in the History Colorado Center’s exhibit “Play Ball!