Now that the baseball season has begun, I have decided to feature a few photographs of a tour (or, to be more precise, preview) of Coors Field that my sister Susan and brother-in-law George (seen in the photo on the left) and I took in August of 1994. This new home of the Colorado Rockies was not scheduled to be completed until the following April, but fans in Colorado were so excited about the new ballpark that the Stadium District decided to give guided tours of the place while it was still under construction.
As I recall, it was a lot of fun. We all got to wear hardhats, and walked through the construction site like we were city officials or baseball executives. Of course, since everyone in the metropolitan area was paying for the ballpark through their sales taxes, I suppose it was felt by the Stadium District that we had every right to inspect the place. My sister Susan and brother-in-law George are seen on the right side of the photograph on the right as we entered the stadium.
We did not get an extensive tour of the building. We were led through one of the main entrances, down the steps where the seats would one day be installed, and to the start of the infield, right behind the soon-to-be batters box. I must admit I was a bit obsessive about the building of this ballpark, and have a shoe box in the hall closet filled with hundreds - no, make that thousands - of slides of Coors Field in various stages of construction in 1994 and the spring of 1995. It would take days or weeks to go through them, and so to hell with that. Perhaps when I am gone some interns from the Colorado Historical Society will be forced to go through them all, the poor SOBs. And they probably still won't be able to get a full time job with the historical society after all that. Welcome to the real world, college graduates!
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