Jim Leyland, a two-time NL Manager of the Year who had won the World Series with the Florida Marlins two years earlier, was expected to bring the Rockies back into contention in 1999.

On April 4, 1999, the Rockies made history as they played their Opening Day game against the defending National League champion San Diego Padres at Estadio de Beisbol Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico – marking the first time Major League Baseball opened the regular season outside the United States or Canada.

The Padres opened their 1999 season in Monterrey, Mexico versus the Colorado Rockies.

Leyland was subsequently hired by the Colorado Rockies for the 1999 season, walking away from the final two years of his contract.

Gregory Lamont Vaughn ( born July 3, 1965 ) is a former Major League Baseball left fielder who played for the Milwaukee Brewers ( 1989 – 96 ), San Diego Padres ( 1996 – 98 ), Cincinnati Reds ( 1999 ), Tampa Bay Devil Rays ( 2000 – 02 ) and Colorado Rockies ( 2003 ).

Estrada played with the Milwaukee Brewers ( 1999 – 2000 ) and Colorado Rockies ( 2001 ).

In December 1998, Blanco signed a contract to play for the Colorado Rockies and won the starting catcher's role for the 1999 season.

Embree played for the Cleveland Indians ( 1992 – 1996 ), Atlanta Braves ( 1997 – 1998 ), Arizona Diamondbacks ( 1998 ), San Francisco Giants ( 1999 – 2001 ), Chicago White Sox ( 2001 ), San Diego Padres ( 2002 & 2006 ), Boston Red Sox ( 2002 – 2005 ), New York Yankees ( 2005 ), Oakland Athletics ( 2007 – 2008 ), and the Colorado Rockies ( 2009 ).

" Big Mac " was the home of the Denver Spurs of the WHA from 1975 to 1976, the Colorado Rockies of the NHL from 1976 to 1982, the Colorado Flames of the CHL from 1982 to 1984, the Denver Nuggets of the ABA and NBA from 1975 to 1999, the Denver Avalanche of the MISL from 1981 to 1982, the Colorado Avalanche of the NHL from 1995 to 1999, and the Denver Grizzlies of the International Hockey League from 1994 to 1995.

Previously, he played with the Atlanta Braves ( 1991 – 1992, 2002 – 2003 ), Colorado Rockies ( 1993 – 1999, 2004, 2006 ), Tampa Bay Devil Rays ( 2000 – 2001 ), Houston Astros ( 2001 ), Washington Nationals ( 2005 ), and San Diego Padres ( 2006 ).

Hernández has played for the Florida Marlins ( 1996 – 1999 ), the San Francisco Giants ( 1999 – 2002 ), the Montreal Expos ( 2003 – 2004 ), the Washington Nationals ( 2005 – 2006, 2009 – 2011 ), the Arizona Diamondbacks ( 2006 – 2007 ), the Minnesota Twins ( 2008 ), the Colorado Rockies ( 2008 ), and the New York Mets ( 2009 ).

He played as a catcher in Major League Baseball with the Florida Marlins ( 1994 – 1998, 2001 – 2002 ), the Los Angeles Dodgers ( 1998 ), the Baltimore Orioles ( 1999 – 2000 ), the Chicago White Sox ( 2000 ), the Colorado Rockies ( 2003 – 2004 ), and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays ( 2005 ).

Darryl Quinn Hamilton ( born December 3, 1964 ) is a former Major League Baseball outfielder who played for the Milwaukee Brewers ( 1988, 1990 – 95 ), Texas Rangers ( 1996 ), San Francisco Giants ( 1997 – 98 ), Colorado Rockies ( 1998 – 99 ) and New York Mets ( 1999 – 2001 ).

Bigbie was drafted by the Baltimore Orioles in the 1st round ( 21st pick overall ) of the 1999 Major League Baseball amateur draft and played over four years (-) for the Orioles before being traded during the 2005 season to the Colorado Rockies.

After graduating from UCLA, where he played as a catcher, Zeile played for 11 major league teams during his career: the St. Louis Cardinals ( 1989 – 1995 ), Chicago Cubs ( 1995 ), Philadelphia Phillies ( 1996 ), Baltimore Orioles ( 1996 ), Los Angeles Dodgers ( 1997 – 1998 ), Florida Marlins ( 1998 ), Texas Rangers ( 1998 – 1999 ), New York Mets ( 2000 – 2001, 2004 ), Colorado Rockies ( 2002 ), New York Yankees ( 2003 ) and Montreal Expos ( 2003 ).

Ronald Edwin " Ron " Gant ( born March 2, 1965, in Victoria, Texas ) is a former American Major League outfielder and second baseman earlier on who played for the Atlanta Braves ( 1987 – 1993 ), Cincinnati Reds ( 1995 ), St. Louis Cardinals ( 1996 – 1998 ), Philadelphia Phillies ( 1999 – 2000 ), Anaheim Angels ( 2000 ), Colorado Rockies ( 2001 ), Oakland Athletics ( 2001 ), San Diego Padres ( 2002 ), and again the Athletics briefly in 2003.

He was called up to the Rockies for the first time in 1999 and hit. 323 with 4 home runs in only 62 at-bats.

It was also the site of an Opening Day game between the Colorado Rockies and San Diego Padres in April 1999.

Tavárez was claimed off waivers by the Colorado Rockies on November 21, 1999.

After graduating from high school in the summer of 1999, Tsao briefly played for Taiwan Major League's Kaoping Fala before he was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Colorado Rockies on October 19, 1999.

In 1999 – 2000, 105 ARL university libraries spent almost $ 100 million on electronic resources, which is an increase of nearly $ 23 million from the previous year.

The poet Pauline Stainer spent several years on the island, and in 1999 published a collection of her poems about Rousay, Parable Island.

He returned to Melbourne in 1977, where he spent most of his career, aside from appointments as visiting faculty abroad, until his move to Princeton in 1999.

In November 1999, Jarrah left Hamburg and went to Afghanistan, where he spent three months.

Carey missed five games early in 1999 through injury, and spent much of the year in the forward line closer to goals.

The Welsh Assembly was set up in 1999 ( as a consequence of the Government of Wales Act 1998 ) and possesses the power to determine how the government budget for Wales is spent and administered.

Estimates of minerals in exploration expenditure in 1999 were one-third of what was spent in 1997.

The prognosis is improved if clinical death is caused by hypothermia rather than occurring prior to it ; in 1999, 29-year-old Swedish woman Anna Bågenholm spent 80 minutes trapped in ice and survived with full recovery from a 13. 7 ° C core body temperature.

Having spent a long time in the Tercera División, the club made consistent progress, reaching the first division on three occasions: 1999, 2004 and 2008.

* John Alford who spent six weeks in Pentonville in 1999 after selling illegal drugs to a reporter.

During 1999 and 2000, California spent millions on onetime projects like buying new rail cars and track improvements.

In 1999, Washington starred in The Hurricane, a film about boxer Rubin ' Hurricane ' Carter whose conviction for triple murder was overturned after he had spent almost 20 years in prison.

Following the 1999 Columbine High School Massacre, journalist Elinor Burkett spent a year following students and teachers in Prior Lake High School.

The couple also spent time by the sea in Whitstable together, using the beach hut, which she uprooted and turned into art in 1999 with the title The Last Thing I Said to You is Don't Leave Me Here, and which was destroyed in the 2004 Momart warehouse fire.

Despite NTL Ireland turning a profit, in May 2005, NTL sold their Dublin, Galway, and Waterford cable business ( which they had acquired in 1999 for € 825 million from the Irish government ) to UGC Europe for € 325 million — this after having spent in excess of € 100 million on network infrastructure ( i. e. making a gross loss of € 500 million-more than 50 %-over what they paid ).

Richard M. Sudhalter writes ( in ' Lost Chords: White Musicians and Their Contribution to Jazz ', Oxford University Press, 1999 ): " The late trumpet player Don Goldie, who spent four years in Teagarden's band and had known him since childhood said that he ' always got a feeling that a lot of happiness was locked away inside Jack, really padlocked, and never came out ..."

Having spent more time with his family, Fowler then returned twice to the Conservative front bench, first as Chairman of the Conservative Party from 1992 to 1994, during which time he oversaw the Boundary Changes in the early 1990s, then as Shadow Environment, Transport & the Regions Secretary in 1997 to 1998 and Shadow Home Secretary in 1998 to 1999.

During its first fiscal year ( February to September 1999 ) Pets. com earned revenues of $ 619, 000, yet spent $ 11. 8 million on advertising.

ATR spent the next few years touring the world with artists such as Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Beck, Rage Against the Machine, the Wu-Tang Clan and Ministry, as well as headlining such memorable shows as the Digital Hardcore festival at CBGB's in New York City in 1998, and the Queen Elizabeth Hall show in London in 1999 at the request of fan John Peel.

* The Norman Jewison 1999 feature film The Hurricane, starring Denzel Washington in the lead role about Rubin Carter's accusation, trials, and time spent in prison.

The company had acquired financial costs of NOK 0. 9 billion, so the company owed NOK 10. 0 billion by 1999, including money spent on the new trains.

Moondog spent the remainder of his life in Germany where he died in 1999.

He died in 1999, having spent virtually all of his inherited fortune.

McCarthy spent the 1999 season in the same position with the Packers, coaching Brett Favre in a season when Favre threw for 4, 091 yards, the fourth-best total of his career.