The Beginnings of the Colorado Rockies

The Colorado Rockies are a baseball team that is named after the famed mountains located in the western part of the continent of North America. This professional baseball team called the Colorado Rockies is based in the city of Denver, and it is nicknamed the Rocks, the Blake Street Bombers and even "the Rox", which is a stylized spelling of the word "Rocks". The Colorado Rockies is a baseball team that has yet to win a World Series, although the team has already won a National League Pennant in 2007.

The Colorado Rockies are one of the teams that bear the distinction of being a rather young team, having been created in the early part of the 1990s. The team was able to officially join the National League along with another young team, the Florida Marlins. Both teams were expansion teams that got their approvals in 1991 and they were allowed to play in 1993 in the West and East divisions of the NL. The Colorado Rockies were established as a result of the state's desire to have its own baseball team, and to help usher this idea in, the governor of the state at that time, Governor Roy Romer, decided to have an ownership group formed for just such a purpose.

The first game that the team played was with the New York Mets, and it did not end too well for the Colorado Rockies as they experienced their first Major League loss. However, this was followed with a win in their first game in their home stadium, the Mile High Stadium. This game was against the Montreal Expos, and it was witnessed by around 80,000 spectators. The attendance at the stadium on that day is said to be the largest ever Major League regular season game crowd in history, until today.