Colorado Rockies Birth Card: The 3 of Spades

The first game, not a birthday

The Colorado Rockies birth card on this site is the 3 of Spades. That mapping uses the Baseball-Reference first MLB game for the franchise now known as the Colorado Rockies: April 5, 1993. On that day the club was the Colorado Rockies. Later city moves and name changes do not reset the coordinate. A player date of birth does not set it either.

Baseball-Reference first-game row

BBRef lists this franchise from 1993 (team code COL that season; current code COL). The first regular-season box is 1993-04-05 at New York Mets (Shea Stadium). We keep the current marketing name Colorado Rockies.

Wikipedia’s MLB teams table is a year cross-check only. The table cell reads “1993” and mentions the first-game year 1993. No Wikipedia day is used, and no date on this page was invented to fill a hole. Retrosheet’s first-season game log corroborates the same calendar day.

How April 5 becomes the 3 of Spades

solar_value = 55 − (2 × month + day); if solar_value ≤ 0 the coordinate is the Joker (December 31 only). Deck order is 1 = Ace of Hearts through 52 = King of Spades. For April 5, month = 4 and day = 5, so solar_value = 55 − (2 × 4 + 5) = 42. Slot 42 in that deck is the 3 of Spades (3♠).

The card is a position on a calendar, the same way a longitude is a position on a globe. It does not say the Colorado Rockies “are” a personality, and it does not predict a season.

Published meaning of the 3 of Spades

The live meaning page /birth-card/3-of-spades names this coordinate “The Sorrowful Truth.” That copy is written for a person born on this month and day. Quoted here, it describes the coordinate — not a reading of the franchise.

You stay with the hard feeling long enough to learn it, then you let the day continue.

You stay with the hard feeling long enough to learn it, then you let the day continue. You see what's wrong, what's broken, what's unfair. Your mind is naturally oriented toward problems and suffering. You're the truth-teller about darkness.

Your curriculum is learning that honesty includes what's working, not just what's broken. You're learning balanced truth.

Same-card siblings

The 1969 April 8 expansion quartet (Kansas City Royals, Milwaukee Brewers, San Diego Padres, Washington Nationals) is the largest same-day sibling set in this dataset. Colorado Rockies is not in that set.

Exact same first-game calendar day: Miami Marlins.

Same birth-card coordinate (including different first-game days that collapse to the same solar value): Miami Marlins.

Colorado Rockies on the record

The Colorado Rockies are an American professional baseball team based in Denver. The Rockies compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) West Division. The team plays its home baseball games at Coors Field, which is located in the Lower Downtown area of Denver. The club is owned by the Monfort brothers. The Rockies began as an expansion team for the 1993 season and played their home games for their first two seasons at Mile High Stadium. Since 1995, they have played at Coors Field, which has earned a reputation as a hitter's park, as demonstrated by the 1995 team that had four players (Dante Bichette, Vinny Castilla, Andrés Galarraga, and Larry Walker) each hit for 30 home runs; they were nicknamed the "Blake Street Bombers". The Rockies have qualified for the postseason five times, each time as a Wild Card winner. In 2007, the team earned its only NL pennant after winning 14 of their final 15 games in the regular season to secure a Wild Card position, capping the streak off with a 13-inning 9–8 victory against the San Diego Padres in the tiebreaker game affectionately known as "Game 163" by Rockies fans. The Rockies then proceeded to sweep the Philadelphia Phillies and Arizona Diamondbacks in the NLDS and NLCS and entered the 2007 World Series as winners of 21 of their last 22 games. However, they were swept by the American League (AL) champions Boston Red Sox in four games. At the end of 2025, the Rockies have an all-time record of 2,364–2,818. This .456 winning percentage is the worst among active MLB franchises.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Colorado Rockies (CC BY-SA 4.0). Nothing here was written for this page beyond that article. The franchise first-game date comes from Baseball-Reference and Retrosheet, not from this article.

FAQ

What is the Colorado Rockies birth card?

The 3 of Spades, from the BBRef first MLB game April 5, 1993 (solar value 42).

Does a relocation change the birth card?

No. The first MLB game for the Colorado Rockies stays with the club. Colorado Rockies still maps from 1993-04-05.

Where does this date come from?

Baseball-Reference franchise first-season schedule, corroborated by the Retrosheet first-season game log, retrieved 2026-09-06. Wikipedia years are a cross-check only.

Read your own birth card

If you want the personal report rather than a franchise first-game coordinate, the existing $9 Birth Card Deep Dive checkout is unchanged. This page only adds utm_source=mlb and utm_content=colorado-rockies.