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The 1969 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball 's (MLB) 1969 season. The 66th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the American League (AL) champion Baltimore Orioles and the National League (NL) champion New York Mets. The Mets won the series, four games to one, to accomplish one of ...
Astrolite, the Astrodome's scoreboard, in 1969; it was the world's first animated scoreboard. The Astrodome was renowned for its four-story "Astrolite" scoreboard, composed of thousands of light bulbs that featured animation. After every Astros home run, the scoreboard played a minute-long animated celebration of pistols, bulls, and fireworks. [71]
The 1969 Houston Astros season was a season in American baseball. The team finished in fifth place in the newly established National League West with a record of 81–81, twelve games behind the Atlanta Braves. It was also the first time in their history that the Astros did not finish below .500.
In 2017, the Astros won their first World Series title. The next year they won more than 100 games again, becoming the first team with consecutive 100+ win seasons. They went 107–55 in 2019 and advanced to the World Series on a home run in Game 6 of the 2019 American League Championship Series by Jose Altuve.
Dubbed the "Eighth Wonder of the World," the Reliant Astrodome continues to sit abandoned, a ghost of its former self -- once host to 50,000-plus crowds for baseball, football, basketball and even ...
Grote was a first-time All-Star in 1968, starting for the NL in the All-Star Game at Houston's Astrodome and batting .282. He hit .252 with six homers and 40 RBIs in 1969, starting 100 games ...
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 ...
The “Miracle Mets’’ stunned the universe by winning the World Series over the heavily favored Baltimore Orioles in October 1969. The Mets have just one other World Series title – 1986.