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| Team:Colorado Rockies | Opening Day: August 14, 1948 |
| First Rockies Game: April 9, 1993 | Dimensions: LF 348 CF 420 RF 365 (1948) LF 335 CF 423 RF 370 (1993) |
| Capacity: 17,000 (1948) 23,100 (1959) 34,657 (1960) 51,706 (1968) 63,000 (1976) 75,000 (1977) 76,123 (1986) | Last Rockies Game: August 11, 1994 |
| Last Sporting Event: December 23, 2000 (NFL's Denver Broncos) | Razed: April 17, 2002 |
| Cost: $500,000 | Owner: City and County of Denver |
| AKA: Bears Stadium (1948-1968) |
Bob Hawsam originally built this stadium for the minor league Bears, on the site of a landfill, in 1948.
The stadium sat 17,000, all in one grandstand that stretched from foul pole to foul pole. Hawsam wanted to play with the big boys, and teamed up with Branch Rickey to form the Continental Baseball League.
Mile high stadium seating chartHe was advised that his stadium was too small, so he added new seats in the south and east, to increase capacity to 34,657. When Major League baseball decided, instead, to expand rather than to admit the Continental League, Hawsam was in trouble.
He paid out a lot of money into the
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