Tennis: Milstein

File

Identifier: B132.01.0001.0004

Scope and Contents

Folder contains a biographical artical from the Denver Post.

Dates

Creation: 1920-1990

Creator

From the Collection: Heitler, Dorothy Shwayder (Person)

Full Extent

From the File: 1 items : letter document box

Language of Materials

From the Series: English

Additional Description

Abstract

Brothers Sam and Sid Milstein were born to eastern European immigrants in the early 1900s in Denver, Colorado. Their father Harry Milstein raised cattle. In 1928, they became charter members of the Denver Tennis Club. The brothers won doubles chamipionships in the 1930s and 1940s. Sam won his first tennis tournament at age 14 and reached the quarterfinals in the European Senior Championships in Italy in 1958. They opened the Aspen Leaf ski and tennis shop in downtown Denver which later moved to Cherry Creek. In 2000 they were inducted into the Colorado Tennis Hall of Fame.