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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 ...
On December 22, 2016 Kalas was hired to be the Houston Astros' television play-by-play announcer on AT&T SportsNet Southwest, [5] beginning with the 2017 season. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] On September 29, 2019, it was announced by the Astros that they had extended Kalas’ contract through the end of the 2021 season, along with that of his TV-broadcasting ...
This is a list of award winners and league leaders for the Houston Astros, an American professional baseball team based in Houston.The Astros compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL), having moved to the league in 2013 after spending their first 51 seasons in the National League (NL).
The stadium hosted the Houston Bowl before the Texas Bowl's inception and also hosted both the 2002 and 2005 Big 12 Championship Games. The 2005 game featured Houston native Vince Young at quarterback for the University of Texas at Austin and led the Longhorns to a 70–3 rout of the University of Colorado in front of 71,107. [48]
It served as home to the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1965 until 1999, and the home to the Houston Oilers of the American Football League (AFL)/National Football League (NFL) from 1968 until 1996, and also the part-time home of the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1971 until 1975.
On January 17, 2014, Scherzer and the Tigers agreed on a $15.525 million salary for the 2014 season, avoiding arbitration for the third straight year. [ 70 ] On May 5, Scherzer struck out nine Houston Astros batters in eight innings of a 2–0 victory. [ 71 ]
He made his MLB debut with Houston, in 2001, finishing his rookie season with a win–loss record of 14–3. [1] Oswalt was a back-to-back 20-game winner in 2004 and 2005 . He helped lead the Astros to their first World Series appearance in 2005 , and was named Most Valuable Player of the 2005 National League Championship Series (NLCS).
The 2018 Houston Astros season was the 57th season for the Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise in Houston, Texas, their 54th as the Astros, sixth in both the American League and American League West, and 19th at Minute Maid Park.