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With new Coors Field fences, Rockies still fighting mile-high rep

Before the major leagues came to Mile High Stadium in 1993, then skipped to Coors Field two years later, baseball's power brokers were freaking out.

Bart Giamatti, the president of the National League at the time, was so bewitched about the idea of playing big-league baseball in Denver, he hired an expert in experimental particle physics to find some answers.

You can put a bat and a ball on the moon, but that doesn't make it baseball. So how high is too high to play baseball? Will .450 batting averages and 80 home runs be the norm in Denver?