Lew Cady aka Lewis Carter Cady

Creative marketing director, publisher and writer of one of the supreme comic creations, "The Little Kingdom Come," devout baseball fan and beer devotee -- via the Denver Post.

One of the funniest and most memorable characters in Denver's history, I knew Lew for decades, only because a) I grew up here, and had friends in Central City (where we could get bar service while still in high school), where he founded and published the Central City newspaper "The Little Kingdom Come," "published whenever we damn well please," from 1970 to just recently. Long before The Onion, Lew's scurrilous rag neatly skewered all the feuds and foibles endemic to every small mountain town, focusing specifically on "old," pre-gambling Central City. I treasure the few paper copies of the "Kingdom Come" I have -- they are still hilarious. Lew could deflate pomposity and capture the essence of a bar regular with equal pithiness, teaching me much about the funny. And b) he loved baseball as much as I do! He enjoyed it wherever it was played, but his loyalty was all for the Denver teams -- first the Bears, then the Zephyrs, and finally, for better or worse, with the Rockies.