Major League Baseball A Mile High: The First Quarter Century of the Colorado Rockies

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
Gregory H. Wolf
5.GARRETT ATKINS
Paul Hofmann
6.CLINT BARMES
Kurt Wells
7.DON BAYLOR
Malcolm Allen and Alfonso L Tusa C
8.DANTE BICHETTE
Manny Randhawa
9.ELLIS BURKS
Robert Brustad
10.VINNY CASTILLA
Kyle Eaton
11.AARON COOK
Joy Hackenmueller and Bill Nowlin
12.JEFF FRANCIS
Alex Marks
13.BRIAN FUENTES
Ryan Keeler
14.ANDRES GALARRAGA
Brian Werner
15.BOB GEBHARD
Paul Parker
16.BRAD HAWPE
John Paul
17.TODD HELTON
Alan Cohen
18.CLINT HURDLE
Brian C. Engelhardt
19.JASON JENNINGS
Michael T. Roberts
20.KELI MCGREGOR
Alex Marks
21.JERRY MCMORRIS
Bob LeMoine
22.THE MONFORTS - DICK AND CHARLIE
Roger L. Kinney
.DAN O’DOWD
Christopher Williamson
KEVIN RITZ
Chad Moody
25.LARRY WALKER
Alan Cohen
26.WALT WEISS
Ken Reed
27.ERIC YOUNG SR.
Mike Cooney
28.THUMBNAILS OF SOME CURRENT ROCKIES
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
Curt Smith
30.COORS FIELD
Thomas J. Brown Jr.

MEMORABLE GAMES
31.APRIL 9, 1993: A ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH ON OPENING DAY
John Bauer
32.APRIL 26, 1995: THE OPENING OF COORS FIELD AND THE BIRTH OF THE BLAKE STREET BOMBERS
Eriel F. Barcenas
33.OCTOBER 1, 1995: THE MOST CONSEQUENTIAL COMEBACK
John Bauer
34.JULY 7, 1998: DENVER BALLPARK HOSTS HIGHEST SCORING ALL-STAR GAME - EVER!
Alan Cohen
35.JUNE 19, 1999: ROCKIES’ TODD HELTON HITS FOR THE CYCLE WITH FOUR LEAD-OFF AT-BATS
Mike Huber
36.APRIL 10, 2000: KEN GRIFFEY JR. YOUNGEST PLAYER TO HIT 400TH HOME RUN
Richard A. Cuicchi
37.AUGUST 22, 2000: THE WINNING PITCHER WAS THE CATCHER
Paul Hofmann
38.AUGUST 23, 2001: JASON JENNINGS HOMERS, SHUTS OUT THE METS IN DEBUT GAME
Joseph Wancho
39.APRIL 4, 2005: ROCKIES RESILIENT ROOKIES LEAD COMEBACK
Paul Hofmann
40.OCTOBER 1, 2007: GAME 163
Lauren Cronin
41.JULY 4, 2008: ROCKIES OUT-BLAST MARLINS IN FIREWORKS NIGHT GAME
Mike Huber
42.AUGUST 10, 2009: ROCKIES’ TROY TULOWITZKI HAS 5 FOR-5, 7-RBI NIGHT AS HE HITS FOR THE CYCLE
Mike Huber
43.AUGUST 24, 2009: SPILBORGHS

SABR is the Society for American Baseball Research, a group of over 6,000 enthusiasts about the game of baseball whose research interests range from the game's history to statistical analysis, records, cultural impact, and more. The BioProject is a SABR effort to research, write, and publish biographies of every player--and every person--ever connected with organized baseball. Anyone with a love of baseball can join SABR and become a part of these efforts.