In recent weeks, as Major League Baseball prepared for a season without (real) fans in the stands, I found myself daydreaming about better times: the recent past where three million people went through the gates at Coors Field in 2018, as well as the more distant past where more than four million tickets were sold in the inaugural season at Mile High Stadium in 1993. Before long, I was thinking about an alternate reality: a world where the Rockies didn’t move into Coors Field until after they had accomplished a seemingly preposterous achievement — drawing five million fans in a single season.
A Dream of Five Million Fans
