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Bookmark or Share- Celebrating the Blake Street Bombers and dreaming of the next iterationAs part of the Rockies 30 th anniversary season, Walker, Bichette, Burks, and Castilla will be honored before the second game of Colorado’s doubleheader against the Giants. The first 15,000 fans at...
- History of the Colorado Rockies - WikipediaHe was one of the four Rockies known collectively as 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 Rockies during the previous season.
- The Blake Street Bombers – National Ballpark MuseumDante Bichette, Ellis Burks, Vinny Castilla, Andres Galarraga, and Larry Walker – The Blake Street Bombers created a legacy from the beginning for the Colorado Rockies! Any Colorado Rockies fan will treasure this wonderful walk back in time to the origins of these incredible baseball players.
- April 26, 1995: The opening of Coors Field and the birth of the Blake ...However, there’s no doubt that one home run forged the Blake Street Bombers.10 This story originally appeared in “Major League Baseball A Mile High: The First Quarter Century of the Colorado Rockies” (SABR, 2018), edited by Bill Nowlin and Paul T. Parker.
- 20 years ago, the Rockies acquired the final piece of the Blake Street ...Thus, the legendary Blake Street Bombers (named for the street across from Coors Field) were born. Galarraga (31 HRs, 106 RBIs), Castilla (32 HRs, 90 RBIs), Bichette (40 HRs, 128 RBIs) and Walker (36 HRs, 101 RBIs) powered Colorado to the NL Wild Card title and their first postseason ever.
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