About Mile High Stadium
Mile High Stadium was the Colorado Rockies' home for their first two MLB seasons, a converted football stadium that became the setting for the most extraordinary attendance story in baseball history. The Rockies were an expansion team in 1993, and Denver had been starved for big-league baseball — when the gates opened, the response was staggering. The 1993 home opener drew 80,227 fans, the largest crowd in baseball history at the time, and the team finished the season with 4.48 million fans in attendance — shattering the MLB single-season attendance record.
The thin air at 5,280 feet elevation was already influencing play significantly, the same physics that would make Coors Field famously favorable to hitters. The enormous football configuration gave the stadium a festival atmosphere unlike any other ballpark — 76,000 fans watching a baseball game created a noise level that felt closer to a World Cup match than an afternoon at the ballpark.
Mile High Stadium's baseball life was brief by design — Coors Field was always the destination — but the two seasons played there set attendance records and established Colorado as a passionate baseball market. The stadium was demolished in 2002, replaced by the Denver Broncos' Invesco Field (now Empower Field).
Fun facts
- The 1993 home opener drew 80,227 fans — the largest MLB crowd in history at the time.
- The Rockies drew 4.48 million fans in 1993, shattering the MLB single-season attendance record.
- Denver's 5,280-foot elevation made the ball carry farther — previewing the Coors Field hitter's paradise.
- The entire seating structure on one side was on rollers, rotating between baseball and football configurations.
- Demolished in 2002 to make way for the Broncos' new stadium, now Empower Field.
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