Matthew Thomas Holliday...he and his wife, Leslee, have two sons, Jackson (12/4/03) and Ethan (2/23/07)...is the son of current North Carolina State associate head coach and former Oklahoma State head coach Tom Holliday, and is also nephew of Dave Holliday, who is a Special Assistant to Rockies GM Dan O'Dowd...brother, Josh, is the assis-tant coach at Arizona State...was recruited out of Stillwater High School to play quarterback at OSU, but signed with Colorado (Pat Daugherty)...as a senior, he earned All-American honors in football and baseball and also earned his region's Gatorade Player of the Year award in both sports...competed for the 1997 USA Junior National Team.

Named a National League All-Star and was honored with a Louisville Silver Slugger Award for the third consecutive season...hit .321 with 38 doubles, 25 home runs, 88 RBI, 107 runs scored and 28 stolen bases...led the Rockies in doubles, total bases (290), on-base pct. (.409) and slugging pct. (.538)...2008 marked his third straight season to hit over .320; ranked third in the NL in average and has finished among the top three in the NL in hitting each of the last two seasons...ranked eighth in the NL with 107 runs scored for his third straight season of 100 or more runs...led the Rox in runs in each of the last three seasons...also posted his third straight season of 35 or more doubles and has at least 20 doubles in each of his five seasons in the majors...had a career-high 28 stolen bases and has four consecutive seasons of 10 or more steals...recorded the first 25-homer, 25-steal season by a Rockie since Larry Walker in 1997 (49 HR, 33 SB) and one of four in the majors in 2008 (Hanley Ramirez, Grady Sizemore, Carlos Beltran)...ranked third in the NL in stolen base percentage (28 for 30, 93.3%)...hit safely in 61 of 73 home games and batted .332, which was the sixth best home average in the NL...from June 8 to August 6, he led all NL hitters with .371 average...finished Interleague play with the fifth-best average in majors (.408)...had a season-high 14-game hitting streak from June 27 to July 10, hitting .415 (22 for 53) in that span...also had an 11-game hit streak from June 14 to 24 and 10-game hit streaks from May 13 to 24 and August 19 to 29...finished with six home runs against the Marlins, which tied for his most homers against a team in any season (LA, 2007)...crossed home plate in 15 consecutive games from July 27 to August 10 (20 runs scored in that span), tying the Colorado record set by Dante Bichette (September 10, 1993-April 14, 1994)...fell three short of the modern MLB record (since 1900) -- 18 games by Red Rolfe (1939) and Kenny Lofton (2000)....it matched Houston's Lance Berkman for the longest streak of that type in the majors in 2008...had a hit in his first five games against New York, extending his hitting streak against the Mets to 24 games (July 25, 2005 to June 22, 2008)...it was the longest such streak by any player against the Mets, topping the mark of 22 set by Matty Alou from 1971-73.