Arizona Diamondbacks



Gaining popularity by the titles of D-Backs or the Snakes, The Arizona Diamondbacks are a Major League Baseball team based in Phoenix, Arizona. They have the honor of playing in the West Division of the National League. The team has been categorized as the area's wildly popular and successful NBA franchise since the early 1990s. Tucson, Arizona's second largest city was selected as the home for Diamondbacks spring training as well as the team's top minor league affiliate.

In the late 1980s, in order to attract the audience ship and share a proposed 70,000 seat domed stadium in Phoenix, Martin Stone, owner of the Phoenix Firebirds approached St. Louis (football) Cardinals owner Bill Bidwill, who already had plans under the sleeve. He was already working on to leave St. Louis and instead opted to sign a long term lease with Arizona State University for using its Sun Devil Stadium as the home of his soon-to-be Arizona based NFL franchise.

In the fall of 1993, Jerry Colangelo, General Manager and a minority owner of the Phoenix Suns proclaimed his idea of assembling an ownership group to attain the acceptance for a Major League Baseball expansion team. After colossal efforts, a neighboring group was formed after lobbying with the Maricopa County Sports Authority to preserve Cactus League spring training in Arizona. Eventually it was successful in securing a Major League franchise for the state, which was hoped to benefit all. Colangelo was more interested in marketing the Diamondbacks to a statewide fan base right from the beginning. He did not want to limit fan appeal to Phoenix and its suburbs.

The moment the team enters the arena for the first time, it brings along many desires and apprehensions yet hope, luck and entertainment for the well-wishers area always the part of any game. The Diamondbacks played their first major league game against the Colorado Rockies on March 31, 1998, at Chase Field. Being seasoned players and much experienced in the field of baseball, the Rockies came out to be victorious in this game. They won, 9-2, with Andy Benes on the mound for the Diamondbacks, and Travis Lee being the first player to hit, score, homer and drive in a run. Over 50,000 fans attended this game and bore witness to the spark that each Diamondback player carried along. It surely is a fact that winning is not everything. Mere participation is evident of the fact that life has its thrill and its asks for commitment, zeal and passion to go beyond ordinary.

In 2001, the team was led by two of the most dominant pitchers in all of baseball: Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling. Arizona had postseason victories over the St. Louis Cardinals (3-2 in the NLDS) and the Atlanta Braves (4-1 in the NLCS) to advance to the World Series where, in one of the most exciting series ever, they beat the reigning champions, the New York Yankees, 4 to 3, to become the youngest expansion franchise to win the championship (in just their fourth season of play).

That classic World Series is chronicled in Charles Euchner's book The Last Nine Innings (Sourcebooks, 2006). The series was also seen as the beginning of the end of the Yankees' stranglehold on baseball glory, as profiled in Buster Olney's book The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty. The Diamondbacks victory parade was held at Bank One Ballpark and the surrounding Phoenix streets on November 7, 2001 and an estimated orderly crowd of over 300,000 celebrated this victory parade.

This was the first major professional sports championship for the state of Arizona and the first for a team owned or controlled by Colangelo.

The 2006 Arizona Diamondbacks looked to improve on their 77-85 record from 2005. They looked to contend in what was once again a weak National League West Division.

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