Colorado Rockies baseball ticket info

Denver, The Mile High City, is one of America’s hottest spots for skiing and winter fun, but it’s also a hot spot for professional sports of all kinds. Denver is the home city to the Nuggets, the Broncos, the Colorado Avalanche, and even the professional soccer team, the Colorado Rapids, but if baseball is your game, then you best get Colorado Rockies tickets.

From the first game in 1993, when the Rockies hosted Montreal at their temporary home of Mile High Stadium, the Denver fans have fully supported this team and kept the stadium at or near sell out levels. The proof of Denver’s love of the Rockies came on the record setting day of April 9, 1993 when every one of the 80,277 seats in Mile High Stadium was filled with a fan. Unfortunately for 20,000 fans per game, in 1995 the team moved into its permanent home of Coors Field, which can hold a maximum of just over 50,000 fans per game. The smaller number of seats definitely made Colorado Rockies Tickets much more desired.

Although Coors field has less of a seating capacity, it was a site made solely for baseball and the Rockies kicked off their life in Coors Field in an impressive manner. In the 14th inning against New York, Dante Bichette hit a three run homer to win the game. Because of the exciting play of the Rockies a streak of 203 consecutive sell out games was begun in June of 1995. This outpouring of fan support for the Colorado Rockies and Baseball in general was probably a big reason why Coors Field was chosen as the site of the 1998 All-Star game which featured players like Ken Griffey Jr. and Mark McGwire.

Winning it all has not been the fortune of the Colorado Rockies as of yet, but they have had excellent award winning players. One player of note is Larry Walker, who in 1997 won a Golden Glove award. For the same season he also won the MVP award for the National League, the first Colorado Rockie, as well as the first Canadian, to do so.

Due to injuries and some shake ups within the organization the Rockies finished in last place in the National League West Division last year, but with all the young talent that the Rockies had on the field in 2005 this could be their best year yet. The NL West division has a lot of question marks, so the Colorado Rockies could easily be a quiet favorite. I’d get your Colorado Rockies tickets before that happens, as the hottest team in town tends to heat up fast and sell out even faster.