Update
Week of May 9, 6:30 P.M. Fox31, Denver week on Wheel of Fortune TV show. 15 Denver contestants!
.Quotes
A hot dog at the ballgame beats roast beef at the Ritz. ~Humphrey Bogart
When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball." ~Willie Stargell,
There have been only two geniuses in the world. Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare. ~Tallulah Bankhead
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..and how could we have baseball quotes without one from Yogi Berra?
It ain't like football. You can't make up no trick plays. ~Yogi Berra
A Brief History of Denver Baseball History
Colorado's baseball history can be traced to 1862 and George Tebeau, who organized a team called the Denvers around the time the battle of Shiloh was fought in the Civil War. McNeils Side defeated Hulls Side 20-7 in a baseball game held at Broadway Grounds. Broadway Grounds was a multipurpose facility, and later was home of the Denver Brown Stockings in the 1870s.
Through the war years of WWII and shortly thereafter baseball was played at Merchants Park until it was razed.
The most famous of the old Denver ballparks, Bears Stadium opened in August 1948 with approximately 18,000 seats in the grandstand. Bob Howsam, who built the park for the Bears franchise that he ran, later was a key player in attempting to form a third major league, the Continental League. While the attempt was unsuccessful, it did succeed in putting Denver on the map as a future home of a major league baseball club, and also led to the expansion of Bears Stadium in the late 1950s. From that time, Denver was used as a bargaining chip when club owners threatened to move to Denver if their city did not build a new stadium.
During these years the Bears served as the farm club at different major league team such the Yankees, Detroit Tigers, Chicago White Sox, and the Montreal Expos. Among the club's more famous alumni were Tim Raines Sr., Barry Larkin, Randy Bass, and then there was Marv Throneberry who won three home run titles in a row while playing for Denver in the 1950s. Denver fans saw the keystone combo of Tony Kubek and Bobby Richardson play together in Denver the year before they moved up to the Yankees. Joey Meyer hit a ball into the upper deck in left field. The ball traveled an estimated 582 feet, the longest home run in professional baseball history. Don Larsen pitched in Denver two years before throwing the only perfect game in World Series history.
When the city acquired the park in 1968, it was renamed Mile High Stadium, but it remained the home of the Bears (renamed the Zephyrs in 1985) until 1992. The Zephyrs left for New Orleans after 1992 to make room for Colorado's new National League ball club. The Rockies played in the park their first two seasons, leaving for Coors Field in 1995.
April 17, 1993 in the Rockies first ever home game, Eric Young the lead-off batter hit a home run in the first at bat of the first inning.
May 5, 2016 the Colorado Rockies scored 13 runs in the 5th inning against the San Francisco Giants.
Why is a player who just struck out like an angry chicken? They both have foul mouths.
Week of May 9, 6:30 P.M. Fox31, Denver week on Wheel of Fortune TV show. 15 Denver contestants!
.Quotes
A hot dog at the ballgame beats roast beef at the Ritz. ~Humphrey Bogart
When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball." ~Willie Stargell,
There have been only two geniuses in the world. Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare. ~Tallulah Bankhead
.
..and how could we have baseball quotes without one from Yogi Berra?
It ain't like football. You can't make up no trick plays. ~Yogi Berra
A Brief History of Denver Baseball History
Colorado's baseball history can be traced to 1862 and George Tebeau, who organized a team called the Denvers around the time the battle of Shiloh was fought in the Civil War. McNeils Side defeated Hulls Side 20-7 in a baseball game held at Broadway Grounds. Broadway Grounds was a multipurpose facility, and later was home of the Denver Brown Stockings in the 1870s.
Through the war years of WWII and shortly thereafter baseball was played at Merchants Park until it was razed.
The most famous of the old Denver ballparks, Bears Stadium opened in August 1948 with approximately 18,000 seats in the grandstand. Bob Howsam, who built the park for the Bears franchise that he ran, later was a key player in attempting to form a third major league, the Continental League. While the attempt was unsuccessful, it did succeed in putting Denver on the map as a future home of a major league baseball club, and also led to the expansion of Bears Stadium in the late 1950s. From that time, Denver was used as a bargaining chip when club owners threatened to move to Denver if their city did not build a new stadium.
During these years the Bears served as the farm club at different major league team such the Yankees, Detroit Tigers, Chicago White Sox, and the Montreal Expos. Among the club's more famous alumni were Tim Raines Sr., Barry Larkin, Randy Bass, and then there was Marv Throneberry who won three home run titles in a row while playing for Denver in the 1950s. Denver fans saw the keystone combo of Tony Kubek and Bobby Richardson play together in Denver the year before they moved up to the Yankees. Joey Meyer hit a ball into the upper deck in left field. The ball traveled an estimated 582 feet, the longest home run in professional baseball history. Don Larsen pitched in Denver two years before throwing the only perfect game in World Series history.
When the city acquired the park in 1968, it was renamed Mile High Stadium, but it remained the home of the Bears (renamed the Zephyrs in 1985) until 1992. The Zephyrs left for New Orleans after 1992 to make room for Colorado's new National League ball club. The Rockies played in the park their first two seasons, leaving for Coors Field in 1995.
April 17, 1993 in the Rockies first ever home game, Eric Young the lead-off batter hit a home run in the first at bat of the first inning.
May 5, 2016 the Colorado Rockies scored 13 runs in the 5th inning against the San Francisco Giants.
Why is a player who just struck out like an angry chicken? They both have foul mouths.
Excerpt From Murder in the Rockies
(Citizens of Leadville went to the train station to great each train that came in, and welcome the passengers to Leadville, Coyle is one of the greeters.)
The band was already playing “The Bear Ran over the Mountain” or if you preferred, “He’s a Jolly Good Fellow.” Coyle heard the train whistle. The locomotive arrived at the station at the same time Coyle did.
Coyle joined the crowd in cheering “Welcome to Leadville” until he saw a familiar face. He couldn’t believe it. Momentarily, he had a lump in his throat and one tear of happiness.
“Sarah! Sarah darling, what are you doing here?”
“Andrew.”
“And Leona! How’s my little Onie?”
Coyle scooped up his daughter, the prettiest almost-three-year-old in the world, and held her high over his head for a moment and then dropped her into his cradled arms. He leaned over to give Sarah a kiss.
“Not with that mess on your face.”
Coyle suddenly realized the cold air had made his nose run and the seepage had frozen in his red mustache. He started to wipe it off with the back of his coat sleeve, but Sarah quickly handed him her hankie.
“Men,” she said.
“So, what are you doing here?”
“Yesterday on the telephone you said the special circumstances Doctor James hinted at had been an accident and you were to see that the town was not involved. Your job turned out to be a search for the lost funds, maybe embezzlement. You said it shouldn’t take long to clear up. So I thought Onie and I should take this chance to see the Ice Palace. I’ve heard so much about it. Besides,” she looked down in a flirty pose that Coyle loved, “Besides, I wanted to spend New Year’s Eve with my husband.”
Football Quotes Updated
"A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a
medieval study hall." - Frank Leahy / Notre Dame
"I don't expect to win enough games to be put on NCAA probation. I
just want to win enough to warrant an investigation." - Bob Devaney
/ Nebraska
"I never graduated from Iowa. But I was only there for two terms -
Truman's and Eisenhower's." – Alex Karras / Iowa
I could have been a Rhodes Scholar except for my grades." - Duffy
Daugherty / Michigan State
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