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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The life of the world’s first domed stadium began with a bang ... home of the Houston Astros and the Houston Oilers, by firing Colt .45 revolvers into the dirt. When the Dome was inaugurated ...