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Milestones

Established in 1998 in Phoenix, Arizona

Home Field

o Chase Field (1998 to present) also called Bank One Ballpark (The B.O.B) (1998-2005).

Affiliations

o National League( 1998 to present )

o West Division ( 1998 to present)

Success in Championships

World Series Champions -1: 2001

World Series Appearances -1: 2001

LCS Appearances – 2: 2001, 2007

National League West Division titles -4

1999, 2001, 2002 & 2007

Wild Cards – None

Team Colors: Arizona Diamond back team colors are Sand, Sedona Red & Black

The Arizona Diamond is a professional American Baseball team established in 1998 at Phoenix, Arizona. They are members of the West Division of Major League Baseball’s National League. Phoenix grew to be 9th biggest city in USA in 1990 due to relocation of population to warmer states specially from Midwest and Northeast. Also, there were relocation from the sunny state of California. Demand for a professional National League team from the region came up, as fans for baseball grew in strength. Jerry Calangelo took introductory step by setting up Arizona Baseball Inc. His experience as the majority owner of NBA team Phoenix Suns came in handy and in 1995 he kept “name the team” contest. The basi prize was a lifetime season ticket. The winning choice was Diamond back, named after a rattlesnake, most mutual in Arizona. This five feet long snake may inject a significant amount of venom, when it strikes. The team is nicknamed D-backs and Snakes. The team logo is a red and a black triangle above purple Diamondbacks script. The Colangelo group was awarded the franchise in 1995 for playing 1998 season along with Tampa Bay’s Devil Rays (for St Petersburg). The home grounds are the Chase Fields which were earlier known as Bank One Ballpark (nickname The B.O.B.) and has a new retractable roof.

The team played it is original season in 1998 with the original game on March 31,1998 versus Colorado Rookies before a packed crowd of 50,179. They lost the game by 2-9. The Arizona Diamondbacks won their introductory World Series Title in 2001, the youngest franchise to do so. Also in primary five seasons they likewise won three fragmentary titles. The Arizona Diamondback have won the West Division four times in 1999, 2001, 2002 & 2007. The retired number is 42 Jack Robinson which was retired by MLB. In 2007, Bob Melvin, their manager, won the Manager of the year award. Jose Valverde RHP won the Fireman Award in 2007. Randy Johnson LHP won Cy Young four times in 1999, 2000, 2001 & 2002 and Brandon Webb RHP in 2006. In 2006, Craig Consell 2B won the LCS MVP. During the year 2001, the team won World Series; Randy Johnson LHP and Curt Schilling RHP won the World Series MVP. The other distinguish accomplishment include No Hitters on 5/18/2004 by Randy Johnson (Prefect) and Cycle Hitters by Luis Gonzalez (7/5/2000), Greg Collbrunn (9/18/2002) and Stephen Drew (9/1/2008) .

Arizona Diamondback’s best season was in 1999 with the tally at 100-62 and the worst season in 2004 with 51-111 tally. The ownership alter hands to Ken Kendrick, Jason Ellis, Paul Schloss in 2004 due to the declining team performance. The manager of the team is Bob Melvin since the year 2005. They have had four manager in 11 seasons so far; Buck Showlater from1998-2000, Bob Brenley from 2001-2004, Al Pedrique in 2004 and Bob Melvin 2005-Present

The Mascot is D Baxter the Bobcat. The Sun Poll Pavilion may give closely 35 guests an probability to see the Diamondback play while enjoying fountains, swimming pool or hot tub. The Team has a TV tie up with Fox Sport Net Arizona and MAS (Spanish), the radio with KTAR (620 AM) : KSUN (1400 AM)

After the 2004 season, the Diamond hired Wally Back to be manager but they sacked him within 10days due to legal troubles and improprieties. Bob Melvin became new manager and team expended to a great extent on free agents to rebuild the team. The Arizona Diamondback signed Royce Clayton SS, Troy Glaus 3B, Russ Otiz P and Craig Counsell 2B. They swopped Cassey Fossum for Jose Cruz Jr, Randy Johnson for Javier Vazquez, Brad Halsey and Dioner Navarro. They then swopped newly acquired Dioner Navarro for Shawn Green. This helped the Diamondback to improve the tally in 2005 by 26 games to 77-85.

For 2007 season Luis Gonzales, a Diamondback stalwart and fan bestloved joined the rival Los Angles Dodger. Miguel Batista joined Marnier. Craig Counsel went back to his hometown team of Milwaukee Brewers. Still the season was comparatively a success for Arizona Diamondbacks with 90-72 tally, thanks to a young team of Connor Jackson, Brandon Webb, Carlos Quentin, Chris Young, Chad Tracy, Mark Reynold and Stephen Drew. They beat Colorado Rockets to secure a playoff position and likewise won the NL West title and a berth in National League Championship series original time after 2001.

For 2008 the Arizona Diamondbacks swopped Carlos Quentin for Chris Carter. They also acquired Dan Haren RHP for six players. Dan Haren signed a 4 year deal of $44.75 million. The veteran free agents, Tony Clark and Livan Hernandez did not re-sign. Orlando Hudson underwent a surgery after a collision with Brian Mc Cann of Atlanta Braves. Other major player with injuries was Eric Byrnes. Due to injuries, Diamondbacks swopped Wilkin Castillo C and Micah Owing RHP for Adam Dunn. Further the acquired World Series MVP David Eckstein for second base to fill for Orlando Hudson. The season finished with tally at 82-80.