Dinger Started With Dinosaur Bones

When crews dug the site for Coors Field in Denver in 1993, they uncovered small dinosaur bone fragments during construction. Scientists identified one of the finds as part of a rib from a horned dinosaur, likely something like Triceratops. The discovery became such a local story that the Colorado Rockies leaned into it when they created their mascot. That is why the team ended up with Dinger, a purple triceratops, instead of a more ordinary baseball character.

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