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Mile High Stadium

Denver · 1993–1994 · config 1994

Favors hitters

(+0.4 runs for the away team)

Dimensions

LF 335′ · LFA 366′ · LC 394′ · CF 423′ · RC 413′ · RFA 400′ · RF 370′

Walls LF 14′ · CF 14′ · RF 18′

Football stadium at altitude — Rockies' temporary home

Cavernous foul ground

Capacity 76,123

Altitude before Coors had a name — football seats and thin air.

Overhead diagram

Mile High Stadium overhead schematicLF 335′LFA 366′LC 394′CF 423′RC 413′RFA 400′RF 370′14′ wall14′ wall18′ wallCavernous foul groundStands not in library

Photograph

Denver Mile High Stadium postcard (c. 1970s-1980s).jpg
Denver Mile High Stadium postcard (c. 1970s-1980s).jpg · Mel Schieltz/G. R. Dickson Co. / Wikimedia Commons · 1970 · Public domain

About this park

Mile High Stadium hosted Rockies baseball before Coors — football manners, altitude already in the air, and a hitters' environment that previewed what Denver would become. Short bridge chapter.