Purple Row · Dec 28, 2019
The Rockies through magazine covers
There have been three Rockies covers in Sports Illustrated history on the SI website, and they trigger immediate recollection in poetic, picturesque visual form.
The moments and stories deemed cover-worthy for the Rockies have been of Larry “Humble Hero” Walker in 2001, Jeff Francis in action during the 2007 postseason, and a ‘welcome back’ to Troy Tulowitzki in early summer 2014. There hasn’t been huge representation with only three, but three isn’t too bad either in the grand scheme of things—Sports Illustrated covers far more than baseball.
The Diamondbacks by comparison have had five covers; four of theirs came in the months following their 2001 World Series run.