Favorite Rockies Players #2 - Larry Walker

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We are getting close. #2 in my Favorite Rockies Players series is one of my all time favorite baseball players, right fielder Larry Walker. Larry Walker played nine seasons with the Colorado Rockies. Walker was already having a great career with the Montreal Expos when he came to Colorado, and he didn't disappoint Rockies fans. While wearing a Rockies uniform, Larry Walker was a four time All Star, a five time Gold Glove winner, he won two Silver Slugger Awards, and was a three time National League Batting Champion. Oh, and he won an ESPY in 1998 as Best Baseball Player! Walker's best Rockies season was in 1997, when he had a .366 batting average, with 49 home runs, 130 runs batted in, and 409 total bases. He was both the National League Home Run Leader and Most Valuable Player. I have two favorite Walker moments. During a game against the Cubs, Walker was playing first base. He and Cubs first baseman Mark Grace kept scrawling messages in the dirt for each other until both managers put a stop to it (funny!) Second, in a close game against the Pirates, with everyone expecting him to swing for the fences, Walker laid a perfect game winning bunt down the third base line. That was a fun game to attend. I loved watching Larry Walker play. I hope voters can get past the Denver thin air bias and put him in the Hall of Fame, where he belongs. (Stats verified by Wikipedia)