IN THE SHADOW OF THE ROCKIES - An Outsider's Look Inside a New Major League Baseball Team.

When Denver Post non-sports writer Alan Gottlieb set out to cover the inaugural season of Denver's first major league baseball franchise, his instructions were simple: don't write a typical sports story.
Beginning with a remarkable opening day in which 80,227 fans watched the first Rockie-at-bat, Eric Young, hit a home run, Gottlieb takes us through this remarkable inaugural season. He pokes around behind the scenes - in the byways sports writers never explore and those who are close to the game take for granted - in search of the odd, the off-beat, and the hidden.
This cheerfully sardonic book examines everything from the fans in the $1 Rockpile seats to life on the road - "the millionaire gypsy caravan" where players, sports writers (and yes, the author himself) are all caught telling tales out of school.
Fun and at times even pithy, In the Shadow of the Rockies humanizes the heroes, peels back the veneer of a seemingly faultless organization, and takes the reader on a rollicking tour of major league baseball in the 1990s.

A native of Chicago, Alan Gottlieb received a Bachelor?s Degree from Colorado College and a Master?s Degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He spent 16 years as a newspaper reporter and editor. Currently, Alan works on urban education policy issues for the Denver-based Public Education and Business Coalition. He lives in central Denver with his wife.