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Article: Coors Field: The Tops
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- July 18, 1998
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Thomas Boswell's post-All-Star Game condemnation of Coors
Field {"Mile-High Coors Field Just Doesn't Add Up," Sports, July 9}
is a perfect representation of baseball snobbery, the same snobbery
that discriminated against Rocky Mountain baseball fans for more
than 30 years. Rather than discuss the joy that Major League
Baseball brings to millions of fans each year at Coors Field,
Boswell laments the 1998 All Star Game as "a 20th-century,
commerce-driven practical joke played on a 19th-century American
heirloom."
Apparently, Boswell's All-Star program perpetually reads 1898,
for he seems unaware that the 20th century is nearing its end. It
takes only the slightest bit of hindsight to ...