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Article: IT'S A DIFFERENT GAME AT COORS FIELD.(Sports)(Column)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- April 9, 1996
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Byline: Bob Kravitz Rocky Mountain News Sports Columnist
The place is the story. Coors Field, home of the pop-fly homer and the Blake Street Bombers, and the place pitching coaches go to get coronaries, once again grabs the headline. Anywhere else, the home opener is nothing more than red-white-and-blue bunting and some local dignitary throwing out the first ball. Not here. Not at Coors Field.
Because this place is different. Because this place, with all its magical and maddening oddities, changes the game, shapes the game like no other structure in the sport. That is the best thing about Coors Field and also the worst. It produces crazy, wonderful, ...