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During August 1990 Denver voters passed a tiny percent sales tax to finance the construction of a new baseball stadium. Meanwhile, the Colorado Baseball Advisory Committee, headed by Governor Roy Romer, designated the Colorado Baseball Partnership (CBP) to spearhead the formation of an ownership group. After a National League (NL) expansion committee heard the Denver-based group’s presentation in September, it revealed six potential sites for a new team. Besides Denver, these were Buffalo, Orlando, South Florida, Tampa-St. Petersburg, and Washington, D.C.
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For historical information about the sports and its franchises, see Frank P. Jozsa Jr., Major League Baseball Expansions and Relocations: A History, 1876–2008 (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009), and James Quirk and Rodney D. Fort. Pay Dirt: The Business of Professional Team Sports (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992).
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Each MLB team has a franchise timeline. See http://www.colorado.rockies.mlb.com
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Three sources are the Official Major League Baseball Fact Book 2005 Edition (St. Louis, MO: Sporting News, 2005) and “Teams,” http://www.baseball-reference.com cited 28 January 2015, and also “National League Team Histories,” http://www.sportsecyclopedia.com cited 1 May 2015.
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“Charles K. Monfort,” http://www.colorado.rockies.mlb.com cited 9 August 2015.
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Results of each study are highlighted for readers in respectively “The Business of Baseball,” http://www.forbes.com cited 28 January 2015 and “Major League Baseball Valuations,” http://www.bloomberg.com cited 2 February 2015.
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Paul Swaney, “2014 MLB Ballpark Experience Rankings,” http://www.stadiumjourney.com cited 23 February 2015.
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Barry Janoff, “Report: When It Comes to 2014 MLB Fans, the Most Loyal Group is the Cards,” http://www.nysportsjournalism.com cited 23 February 2015 and “MLB Team Loyalty Winners and Losers,” http://www.brandkeys.com cited 14 February 2015.
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Business articles about the Rockies franchise include Daniel Kaplan, “Molson to Sell Its Stake in Rockies,” SportsBusiness Journal (25 November 2013): 1 and Tom Van Riper, “Return of the Rockies,” Forbes (22 August 2011): 1.
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Jozsa, F.P. (2016). Colorado Rockies. In: National League Franchises: Team Performances Inspire Business Success . SpringerBriefs in Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25993-2_12
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