Their home venue is Coors Field.

They began play in 1993, sharing Mile High Stadium with the National Football League's Denver Broncos their first two seasons while Coors Field was constructed.

Prior to the 1995 season, the Rockies acquired free-agent outfielder Larry Walker, previously of the Montreal Expos, who replaced Kingery as the 4th member of the " Blake Street Bombers "— named after the street on which the new ballpark ( Coors Field ) was located — along with Galarraga, Bichette, and third baseman Vinny Castilla, who had played sparingly with the major-league club during the previous season.

Colorado Rockies celebrate their second straight victory against the New York Yankees in Coors Field on June 19, 2007.

However, he finished just fifth in MVP voting, perhaps because the team finished fourth in the division and also possibly due to bias by voters because he played half of his games in hitter-friendly Coors Field.

Colorado Rockies on June 19, 2007 in Coors Field.

The two teams played a wild card tie-breaker game at Coors Field on October 1 to determine the wild card.

On July 1, 2008, the Rockies defeated the San Diego Padres, 4 – 0, in the shortest nine-inning game in Coors Field history – one hour and 58 minutes.

Spilborghs hit the first walk-off grand slam in Rockies history, his second career grand slam, and his first walk-off homer in the 14th inning to squeak by the Giants, 6 – 4, Monday in front of about half of the 27, 670 fans who remained at Coors Field.

Coors Field during Game 3 of the NLDS.

Coors holds the naming rights to Coors Field in Denver, Colorado, home of the Colorado Rockies baseball team.

Nomo's was particularly impressive because it happened at Coors Field, notorious at the time for being a hitter-friendly ballpark.

Humidors can be used to store other goods for which a certain level of humidity is desirable ; the Colorado Rockies Major League Baseball team stores game balls in a large humidor at their home stadium, Coors Field, to counteract the effects of Denver's high altitude and generally low humidity.

Pepsi Center was constructed as part of a large six-year sporting venue upgrade in Denver along with Coors Field, home of the Colorado Rockies, and Sports Authority Field at Mile High ( formerly Invesco Field at Mile High ), home of the Denver Broncos.

Only two parks presently in existence for a decade or more have only seen one no-hitter — the Orioles ' current home, Oriole Park at Camden Yards, and Coors Field, the notoriously hitter-friendly home of the Colorado Rockies.

* Coors Field in Denver ( 1995 )

* Only pitcher to throw two shutouts at Coors Field, doing so while with Atlanta.

At least some of his slugging success can be attributed to the home run-friendly ballparks in Denver, Mile High Stadium and Coors Field.

Bichette also hit his first home run at the newly-constructed Coors Field, a fourteenth-inning smash against the Mets that secured an opening day victory for the Rockies in.

Before calculating the VORP, the individual player stats must be normalized via park factors to eliminate the distortions that can be created by each ballpark, especially extreme parks like Coors Field in Denver ( where the thin high-altitude air allows baseballs to travel farther than at sea level, although the humidor has significantly decreased the runs scored in Coors Field, to the extent that Denver is no longer considered a pure hitter's haven ) and Petco Park in San Diego ( where the heavier sea air couples with distant fences to suppress run-scoring ).

The band claims on their website that they still pay close attention to an anti-corporate ideology, despite performing on September 5, 2003 at a festival in Turkey that was sponsored by Coca-Cola, noting that they have since pulled out of a show in Los Angeles when they found that it was being sponsored by Coors.

The term " ice beer " ( in name ) was introduced in Canada by Molson ( now part of Molson Coors ).

Coors was later found murdered, and Joseph Corbett, Jr., is indicted for the crime.

On 1 July 2008 the MillerCoors company was formed as a joint venture with rival Molson Coors to consolidate the production and distribution of its products in the United States, with each parent company's corporate operations and international operations remaining separate and independent of the joint venture.

Ceramic fuel elements would have to be used ; the contract to manufacture the 500, 000 pencil-sized elements was given to the Coors Porcelain Company.

* Adolph Coors III, who was allergic to beer, was the heir to the Coors beer empire — being allergic to beer is bad fortune for many, but it is Sod ’ s Law that someone allergic to beer would inherit a beer empire ( and, due to a botched kidnapping attempt, die because of the empire's wealth, thus being killed by beer, if only indirectly ).

By 1933, after the end of Prohibition, the Coors brewery was one of only a handful of breweries that survived Prohibition intact.

For much of its history, Coors beer was a regional product ; its marketing area was confined to the American west.

This iconic status was reflected in the 1977 movie Smokey and the Bandit, which centered around an illegal shipment of Coors from Texas to Georgia.

In the 1970s, Coors invented the pollution free push tab can ; however, consumers disliked the top and it was discontinued soon afterward.

Coors Light was once produced in the " yellow bellied " cans like Coors Banquet ; however, when the yellow coloring was removed and the can was left mostly silver, many dubbed the beer as " The Silver Bullet ".

In 2003, Coors was rated third largest producer of beer in the United States, and the second largest brewer in the United Kingdom through its subsidiary, Coors Brewers Limited.

Another source also credits Hotwired and October 1994, but has Coors ' " Zima " campaign as the first web banner.

In 1959, Coors became the first American brewer to use an all-aluminum two-piece beverage can.

Businessman Joseph Coors contributed the first $ 250, 000 to start The Heritage Foundation in 1973.

Not completely satisfied with her role with the NSA, Sykes began her stand-up career at a Coors Light Super Talent Showcase in Washington, DC, where she performed for the first time in front of a live audience in 1987.

The Rockies played their first two seasons, 1993 and 1994, in Mile High Stadium before moving to Coors Field, two blocks from Union Station in Denver's Lower Downtown ( or LoDo ) neighborhood.

Coors Field was the first major league park with an underground heating system.

In its first decade, the above-average number of home runs earned Coors Field a reputation as the most hitter-friendly park in Major League Baseball, earning the critical nicknames " Coors Canaveral " ( a reference to Cape Canaveral, from where NASA launches spacecraft ) and " Williamsport " ( referring to the site of the Little League World Series ).

In Coors Field's first year, the home run total fell just 7 short of that mark, despite losing 9 games from the home schedule ( or one-ninth of the normal 81 ) due to the strike that had continued from 1994.

In June 2002, the New York Yankees made their first regular season trip to Coors Field.

The first 1-0 game at Coors Field was on July 9, 2005, meaning all nine games have occurred since Major League Baseball allowed the Rockies to start using a humidor on May 15, 2002:

In 1954, the team was sold to Dick Azar, the El Paso Coors distributor who brought beer to the ballpark for the first time.

That year also saw the first occasion in which an American held the overall lead in the nation's premier race, when Greg Oravetz of the Coors Light team took the yellow jersey on a breakaway in Arlington, Virginia.

His first collegiate home run was an inside-the-park home run which came at the UNLV / Coors Desert Classic on February 27.

He won his final race in 1995 at Dover, the first year the car had Coors Light as a sponsor.

Carling O ' Keefe originated from Canadian Breweries Limited which was the first brewing conglomerate in Canada and is now owned by Molson Coors Brewing Company.

White Water Canyon ( now Knott's Soak City ) opened in 1997, while Coors Amphitheatre opened July 21, 1998, the first venue of its kind in San Diego County.

He hit his first big league home run on September 3, 2008, playing for the Giants against the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field, becoming the oldest position player in Major League history to hit his first career home run.