Before Coors Field there was Mile High Stadium, but there were a number of famous places to play baseball before that.
DENVER — Coors Field is pretty famous, and right up there with the best baseball stadiums in the country, but it's not the only one in the history of Denver baseball.The first recorded game was played in Denver in 1862 at Broadway Grounds.
It hosted not only baseball games, but sporting events from rodeos to horse races to bicycle races, it had its own velodrome. It was also the first ballpark in Denver with electricity.In the early 1900's there was Broadway Park One and Two, near 6th and Acoma. The first one burned down and was rebuilt.It's where the Merchants Park Shopping Center is now at Broadway and Interstate 25.
The most famous pre-Coors Field stadium was Bears Stadium, which eventually became Mile High Stadium.
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