Talk:History of the Colorado Rockies

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Created this page. The history section in the main page should be contracted. Arnabdas (talk) 18:27, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

1994 T-shirt?
Although it is possible that Bichette, Castilla, Galarraga, and Mike Kingery were featured as a group on a T-shirt in 1994, it seems quite unlikely, essentially unbelievable. While Bichette and Galarraga were the two big stars on the team at that time, Castilla was not yet a starter. His fame was still in the future. And while Kingery had a good year in 1994, he was nonetheless (somewhat unfairly) regarded as a sort of stopgap center fielder, filling the position until Ellis Burks healed from injury. Kingery had only 4 home runs in 301 at-bats in 1994, hardly the mark of a power hitter. No one would apply the word "bomber" to him.

Furthermore, "Blake Street Bombers" would have been an impossible caption for such a hypothetical T-shirt in 1994. "Blake Street Bombers" always referred to home run power, and the phrase derived from the location of Coors Field at 20th and Blake Street. The Rockies did not play at Coors Field until 1995 -- they played at Mile High Stadium in 1994, about a mile away from Blake Street and on the opposite side of I-25.

No, 1995 was the year of origin of the phrase "Blake Street Bombers," and it originally applied only to Rockies players with at least 30 home runs in a season, which in 1995 meant Bichette, Castilla, Galarraga, and Larry Walker. Paul (talk) 17:42, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

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