About 15 years ago, baseball diehard Bruce Hellerstein was visiting Turner Field in Atlanta, and he had an epiphany: He was going to take his basement collection of old-time stadium artifacts and turn it into a museum.
“There was a big train box car that was a museum, if you will, of Braves history,” Hellerstein recalled. “It was nice, but I went in there and said to myself, ‘Geez, I don’t have to take a backseat to this. This is what I’m going to do.'”
So in 2010, Hellerstein opened the National Ballpark Museum on Blake Street in LoDo, less than a homer’s distance from the main entrance to Coors Field.