While fans like me keep coming back for “next year,” a 100-loss team and changes to the game could threaten attendance like never before
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Drew Litton: Colorado Rockies retrospective
The Colorado Rockies have had their ups and downs since they entered the National League in 1993, but cartoonist Drew Litton offers a few bright spots from years past.
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“I’m kind of part of the problem”: Why do Rockies fans keep paying to watch a losing team?
The Rockies consistently finish in the top half of the Majors in attendance despite few winning seasons. What keeps millions of fans flocking to Coors Field every summer?
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Are the Rockies bad because they’re too high? Let’s examine how elevation affects baseball.
Pitchers especially suffer by playing at elevation, but there are also negative consequences for hitters
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Is LoDo still thriving? Here’s how Coors Field helped shape a developing Denver neighborhood.
Investors, including the Monfort family, now are looking for opportunities in the blocks beyond the Ballpark neighborhood
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What’s wrong with the Rockies? Three decades on, winning baseball is still a struggle in Colorado.
30 years into their existence and amid another losing season, Colorado’s major-league team remains in a constant state of reorganization and rebuilding. How did it get here?
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Drew Litton: Is All-Star Game MVP Elias Diaz on the clock?
Cartoonist Drew Litton observes that Rockies catcher and All-Star Game MVP Elias Diaz was the team’s only representative on the National League roster. How long before he’s traded?
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Silverman: Denver and Atlanta were linked by boycotts long before the All-Star Game
The morning docket finally finished near noon. I hustled to 16th Street and boarded the shuttle. Exiting at Blake Street, I rushed four blocks north to an open field where a small crowd assembled. Attendees were handed two bags of peanuts in special packaging commemorating “Coors Field Groundbreaking — Oct. 16, 1992.” Sensing a baseball […]
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Fact-check: Colorado makes voting far easier than in Georgia. Here’s how.
Misinformation curveballs about Colorado’s election laws are flying around social media after Major League Baseball decided to move its All-Star Game to Denver from Georgia. The league made the decision after Georgia’s legislature overhauled its election laws in ways that many critics argue will make voting more difficult, especially for people of color and for […]
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The Brown Bombers, a little-known Black baseball team, shook Colorado’s segregated sports world
In 1949, the Brooklyn Dodgers had Jackie Robinson. Colorado Springs had the Brown Bombers. Just two years after the Dodgers’ star broke Major League baseball’s color barrier, the Bombers achieved their own historic diamond breakthrough — one equally fraught with racism, but also marked by achievement and celebration. Seventy-two years ago, no one outside of […]