On August 14, 1999, fans of the Rockies and Expos didn’t get a pennant race, but they got plenty of fireworks.

I never saw anything like that in all my years of baseball. It was like they were putting them in air guns — those ping pong balls — and shooting them in the air. Gone.

manager Jim Leyland

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