When watching a game in Colt Stadium, fans took their ... Baseball agreed to lift the ban for Houston, but not until the 1963 season. By the way, the Colt .45's lost both games of the double ...

From 1962 to 1964, the Colts, as they were also known, played at Colt Stadium, a temporary space, south of what became the Astrodome. Houston Astros legend Larry Dierker played at Colt Stadium ...

On opening day, bands played to a packed stadium. The Colt .45s beat the Cubs 11-2. Houston's Bob Aspromonte delivered the first hit and scored the first run. Colt .45's right fielder Roman Mejias ...

They pointed Colt .45 revolvers ... events. The Houston Astros called the Astrodome home until 1999. The Oilers played there until 1996. Eventually, the sprawling NRG Stadium settled into the ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRE) - On April 9, 1965 the Houston Astros would change professional baseball forever when they opened up their season against the New York Yankees inside the Astrodome.

So what better time to look at baseball’s primordial emergence from Houston’s ... Baseball team, the Colt .45s, who played from 1962-1964 before a remarkable new stadium opened.

This season will be the 50th anniversary for the Houston Astros ... years at their new stadium, the Astrodome. The one thing that didn't change though, from the Colt .45 jerseys to these, was ...

With construction of the dome just beginning nearby, twenty-five thousand fans filled the temporary Colt Stadium to watch Houston’s newest home team take on the visiting Chicago Cubs.

This Houston man has been to every major game ... “This is opening day at Colt .45 stadium, April 10th, 1962," 82-year-old Cecil Burdick Jr. said. Wearing his Colt .45’s baseball cap, his ...

With a little help from trainer Jim Ewell, that is. Between innings of that first start at Colt Stadium, Ewell would use hot pads kept in a hydrocollator, seen as revolutionary at the time ...