{"id":583521,"date":"2026-04-03T20:20:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T20:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/583521\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T20:20:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T20:20:26","slug":"disability-hasnt-stopped-colorado-rockies-fan-from-attending-games-for-three-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/583521\/","title":{"rendered":"Disability hasn&#8217;t stopped Colorado Rockies fan from attending games for three decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spend any time with Randy Milliken and most likely he&#8217;ll talk baseball, and more notably, his love for the Colorado Rockies.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They got Ethan Holliday, he&#8217;s supposed to be bigger than his Dad,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/fan.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"fan.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  CBS Colorado&#8217;s Brian Flores interviews Randy Milliken at Coors Field.<\/p>\n<p>                CBS<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0And remembering the good ol&#8217; days. His favorite player? <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Number 17, Todd Helton,&#8221; Randy said. <\/p>\n<p>His first memory of the team feels just like yesterday he said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When Eric Young hit the home run on opening day,&#8221; said Milliken.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/gettyimages-161023547.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"The Denver Post \/ Karl Gehring Rockies leadoff hitter Eric Young, in the team's first plate appearance at Mile High Stadium, smacked a home run to the seats in left-center field on April 9, 1993. \" height=\"948\" width=\"620\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Rockies leadoff hitter Eric Young, in the team&#8217;s first plate appearance at Mile High Stadium, smacked a home run to the seats in left-center field on April 9, 1993.<\/p>\n<p>                Karl Gehring\/The Denver Post via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The memory that stands out though, is one that many Rockies fans remember.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/gettyimages-161090250.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"10.15.2007 -- Colorado Rockies first baseman Todd Helton celebrates the third out in the Rockies 6-4 win in game 4 the National League Championship series between the Colorado Rockies and Arizona Diamondbacks Monday, Oct. 15, 2007 at Coors Field in Denver \" height=\"570\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Colorado Rockies first baseman Todd Helton celebrates the third out in the Rockies 6-4 win in game 4 the National League Championship series between the Colorado Rockies and Arizona Diamondbacks Monday, Oct. 15, 2007 at Coors Field in Denver.<\/p>\n<p>                Helen H. Richardson\/The Denver Post via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Was when Todd (Helton) made the final catch, threw his arms up in the air, rocked his head back. He was looking toward heaven,&#8221; he remembers.  <\/p>\n<p>Randy was there. He was also in Cooperstown for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/colorado\/news\/colorado-rockies-star-todd-helton-says-he-gave-it-my-all-in-hall-of-fame-acceptance-speech\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Helton&#8217;s Hall of Fame ceremony<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/colorado\/pictures\/todd-helton-enshrined-pro-baseball-hall-of-fame\/\" class=\"content__link embed__link\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/gettyimages-2162339919.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"Todd Helton inducted into National Baseball Hall of Fame \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>          <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/colorado\/pictures\/todd-helton-enshrined-pro-baseball-hall-of-fame\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>          Todd Helton inducted into National Baseball Hall of Fame<\/p>\n<p>                      11 photos<\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>And he was there in &#8217;07 in Arizona, for the NLCS.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was just hoping that we would win at least one game, we end up winning both and then we came home and won both,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>He is like an encyclopedia of Rockies history. He loves his team and the game. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel in love with baseball as a boy, watching the movie Pride of the Yankees, the story of Lou Gehrig,&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Milliken, 68, was born with cerebral palsy. Despite needing help with his motor skills and movement, it hasn&#8217;t stopped him from loving his favorite team. You name the player or coach, and chances are, Randy&#8217;s met him. <\/p>\n<p>He recalled several stories with players past and present. One story stands out, when meeting former Rockies third baseman, Nolan Arenado.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/gettyimages-1142139933.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"Atlanta Braves v Colorado Rockies \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Nolan Arenado #28 of the Colorado Rockies throws to first base to complete a double play against the Atlanta Braves  at Coors Field on April 8, 2019 in Denver, Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>                Dustin Bradford \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I met Nolan at Coors Field and he was signing autographs,&#8221; he said. &#8220;He jumped over the table and he said, how&#8217;s Jesus treating you? He said &#8216;You still following God?&#8217; I said yeah. I said thank you for the bat and the ball you signed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When he was younger, he recalls being at a special education school and the instructors telling him, he couldn&#8217;t play. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They were telling me I wasn&#8217;t being realistic about being able to play, so I did play,&#8221; Milliken said. <\/p>\n<p>Milliken has been attending games since 1996. He said that year, he came down to Coors Field to buy a ticket, but met a man named Cliff Stein, who worked for Ball Aerospace at the time. Stein offered to buy him a ticket and that led to more games. 30 years later, with the help of other friends, like Dan Sauvageau, he&#8217;s been attending games, and at the moments that defined the team&#8217;s history, sitting in left field near the fence. He said he loves being able to see the &#8220;regulars&#8221; at home games. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s people in this stadium that know me by name,&#8221; he said.  <\/p>\n<p>Milliken said that when he was younger, he and a friend had dreamed of one day owning, or being a part of a major league team. If you go to the commemorative bricks down the third base line, you will see something that marks that point. A brick that reads, &#8220;My childhood dream came true, Randy Milliken.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m a part of baseball history,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>Yes you are Randy.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spend any time with Randy Milliken and most likely he&#8217;ll talk baseball, and more notably, his love for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-583521","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}