Q 01/05

The Rockies joined the National League in 1993 alongside which other expansion team?

A) Marlins

B) Diamondbacks

C) Devil Rays

D) Mariners

Answer · why

A) Marlins

Florida Marlins: in 1991 the National League picked Denver and South Florida from a shortlist that also had Buffalo, Orlando, Tampa-St. Petersburg and...

Q 02/05

Where did the Rockies play their first two seasons while Coors Field was built?

A) Folsom Field

B) Mile High Stadium

C) Hughes Stadium

D) Falcon Stadium

Answer · why

B) Mile High Stadium

Mile High Stadium had been built for minor-league baseball in 1948 before growing into the Broncos' football home, so the game was coming back: 80,227...

Q 03/05

The 1993 Rockies broke the single-season MLB attendance record set a year earlier by which team?

A) Dodgers

B) Yankees

C) Blue Jays

D) Orioles

Answer · why

C) Blue Jays

Toronto Blue Jays crowds had set the mark at just over four million in 1992; a first-year team in a borrowed football stadium passed it on its 71st ho...

Q 04/05

Who in Denver had used the name 'Rockies' before the ballclub adopted it?

A) A USFL team

B) An ABA team

C) An NHL team

D) An NASL team

Answer · why

C) An NHL team

An NHL team: hockey's Colorado Rockies played in Denver from 1976 until 1982, when they moved east and became the New Jersey Devils; baseball picked t...

Q 05/05

Which trucking magnate saved the Rockies franchise in 1992 after an ownership scandal?

A) Michael Monus

B) Oren Benton

C) John Antonucci

D) Jerry McMorris

Answer · why

D) Jerry McMorris

Jerry McMorris, who ran a Colorado trucking firm, joined two other local businessmen in buying out the out-of-state partners seven months before the f...