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This is a list of owners and executives of the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball. Owners. Roy Hofheinz, R.E. "Bob" Smith,Craig F. Cullinan Jr., George Kirksey ...
After buying the Astros in 2011, Crane began expanding the Astros Foundation by contributing donations and securing corporate partnerships. [43] As of 2017, the foundation had grown from $50,000 to $12 million under his leadership. [44] In 2017, the foundation's Community Leaders Program won MLB's 2017 Allan H. Selig Award for Philanthropic ...
1905 Houston Buffaloes team photo. From 1888 until 1961, Houston's professional baseball club was the minor league Houston Buffaloes.Although expansion from the National League eventually brought an MLB team to Texas in 1962, Houston officials had been making efforts to do so for years prior, with a group effort led in 1952 to buy the St. Louis Cardinals for $4.25 million, but local owners ...
a The Atlanta Braves sale in 2007 to Liberty Media was part of a complex swap of cash, stock, magazine holdings, and the Braves, in which Time Warner sent the Braves, a hobbyist publishing company, and $980,000,000 to Liberty in exchange for approximately 68.5 million shares of Time Warner stock, at the time worth $1.48 billion.
In the nine years with Hunsicker as GM, the Astros won 54% of their games. Until 2017, the 2005 Houston Astros season was the most successful season on the field for the Houston franchise. The team won the National League pennant to advance to the World Series, and Houston hosted the first World Series game ever played in Texas.
Tilman Joseph Fertitta (born June 25, 1957) is an American businessman and television personality. He is the chairman, CEO, and owner of Landry's, Inc. [2] [3] He also owns the National Basketball Association (NBA)'s Houston Rockets.
Jeff Luhnow (born June 8, 1966) is a Mexican and American former baseball executive and owner of Mexican club Cancún and Leganés of Spain. [1] He worked for the St. Louis Cardinals in their scouting department from 2003 through 2011, before joining the Houston Astros in December 2011.
Daikin Park (originally Enron Field and formerly Astros Field and Minute Maid Park) is a retractable roof stadium in Houston, Texas, United States. It opened in 2000 and is the home ballpark of the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball (MLB).