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Major League Baseball A Mile High: The First Quarter Century of the Colorado Rockies provides a look at the first 25 years (1993 through 2017) of the major-league baseball team in Denver, the Colorado Rockies. Included are essays on the birth of the Rockies and biographies of 24 of the most important players, managers, and club executives as selected by the Rocky Mountain chapter of SABR. We added "ballpark bios" of the two fields on the Rockies have called home: Mile High Stadium and Coors Field. In addition, 18 memorable and historic games are recapped here. Including a foreword by beat writer Thomas Harding, who has covered the Rockies since the year 2000, and illustrated with over 30 photos from the archives of the Colorado Rockies and the National Baseball Hall of Fame, Major League Baseball A Mile High is the perfect addition to any Rocky Mountain baseball fan's personal library. This book is a production of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR). Over three dozen SABR members contributed as authors, editors, fact-checkers, and pitched in with ideas to shape the book. CONTENTS 1.FOREWORD By Thomas Harding 2.INTRODUCTION 3.THE BIRTH OF THE COLORADO ROCKIES BASEBALL CLUB By Roger L. Kinney PLAYERS AND EXECUTIVES 4.PEDRO ASTACIO By Gregory H. Wolf 5.GARRETT ATKINS by Paul Hofmann 6.CLINT BARMES By Kurt Wells 7.DON BAYLOR By Malcolm Allen and Alfonso L Tusa C 8.DANTE BICHETTE By Manny Randhawa 9.ELLIS BURKS By Robert Brustad 10.VINNY CASTILLA By Kyle Eaton 11.AARON COOK By Joy Hackenmueller and Bill Nowlin 12.JEFF FRANCIS By Alex Marks 13.BRIAN FUENTES By Ryan Keeler 14.ANDRES GALARRAGA By Brian Werner 15.BOB GEBHARD By Paul Parker 16.BRAD HAWPE By John Paul 17.TODD HELTON By Alan Cohen 18.CLINT HURDLE By Brian C. Engelhardt 19.JASON JENNINGS By Michael T. Roberts 20.KELI MCGREGOR By Alex Marks 21.JERRY MCMORRIS By Bob LeMoine 22.THE MONFORTS - DICK AND CHARLIE By Roger L. Kinney 23.DAN O'DOWD By Christopher Williamson 24.KEVIN RITZ By Chad Moody 25.LARRY WALKER By Alan Cohen 26.WALT WEISS By Ken Reed 27.ERIC YOUNG SR. By Mike Cooney 28.THUMBNAILS OF SOME CURRENT ROCKIES by Ed Meserko and Gwen Meserko, and Carm Reale Nolen Arenado / Charlie Blackmon / Jorge de la Rosa / Dexter Fowler / Carlos Gonzalez / Matt Holliday / Ubaldo Jimenez / Trevor Story / Troy Tulowitzki THE BALLPARKS 29.MILE HIGH STADIUM By Curt Smith 30.COORS FIELD By Thomas J. Brown Jr. MEMORABLE GAMES 31.APRIL 9, 1993: A ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH ON OPENING DAY by John Bauer 32.APRIL 26, 1995: THE OPENING OF COORS FIELD AND THE BIRTH OF THE BLAKE STREET BOMBERS by Eriel F. Barcenas 33.OCTOBER 1, 1995: THE MOST CONSEQUENTIAL COMEBACK by John Bauer 34.JULY 7, 1998: DENVER BALLPARK HOSTS HIGHEST SCORING ALL-STAR GAME - EVER! by Alan Cohen 35.JUNE 19, 1999: ROCKIES' TODD HELTON HITS FOR THE CYCLE WITH FOUR LEAD-OFF AT-BATS by Mike Huber 36.APRIL 10, 2000: KEN GRIFFEY JR. YOUNGEST PLAYER TO HIT 400TH HOME RUN by Richard A. Cuicchi 37.AUGUST 22, 2000: THE WINNING PITCHER WAS THE CATCHER by Paul Hofmann 38.AUGUST 23, 2001: JASON JENNINGS HOMERS, SHUTS OUT THE METS IN DEBUT GAME by Joseph Wancho 39.APRIL 4, 2005: ROCKIES RESILIENT ROOKIES LEAD COMEBACK by Paul Hofmann 40.OCTOBER 1, 2007: GAME 163 by Lauren Cronin 41.JULY 4, 2008: ROCKIES OUT-BLAST MARLINS IN FIREWORKS NIGHT GAME by Mike Huber 42.AUGUST 10, 2009: ROCKIES' TROY TULOWITZKI HAS 5 FOR-5, 7-RBI NIGHT AS HE HITS FOR THE CYCLE by Mike Huber 43.AUGUST 24, 2009: SPILBORGHS' WALK-OFF SLAM BOOSTS PLAYOFFS DRIVE by Jack Zerby 44.APRIL 17, 2010: UBALDO JIMENEZ' BIG NIGHT by Michael T. Roberts 45.APRIL 4, 2014: A RECORD, THE ROOFTOP, AND A ROUT: OPENING DAY 2014 AT COORS FIELD by John Bauer 46.SEPTEMBER 15, 2015: A RECORD 24 PITCHERS, 58 TOTAL PLAYERS, IN 16-INNING GAME by Mike Huber 47.JUNE 18, 2017: ARENADO COMPLETES CYCLE WITH WALK-OFF HOMER by Michael Huber 48.AUGUST 14, 2017: CHAD BETTIS COMES HOME by Bill Nowlin 49.2009, JIM TRACY, AND THE MIRACLE AT 20TH & BLAKE by Michael T. Roberts
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