Today is the 25th anniversary of the opening of Coors Field, home of the Colorado Rockies baseball club. The start of the season was delayed that year by a long players strike, which explains why opening day took place in late April. Ironically, the start of the season has been delayed this year, too, thanks to the coronavirus. Back then, everyone was truly excited about major league baseball finally coming to Denver, and in it's first two years, when the team played at Mile High Stadium, the Rockies regularly drew crowds of 80,000 fans. During that time, the new stadium was being built in Denver's lower downtown neighborhood (LoDo), and I took the above photograph of the park under construction back in February of 1994. My friend Stuart and I attended that first game at Coor's Field on April 26th, 1995. The thing I remember most about it was that it was cold as hell. In fact, colder. But the Rockies did win, when Dante Bichette hit a walk off home run in the bottom of the 14th inning. These days, the Rockies don't seem to win many games anymore. Hopefully that will change once they get back on the field after the end of this damn virus.
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