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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 ...
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 ...
During his tenure as owner, the Astros experienced a turnaround in which they had three consecutive 100-win seasons (2017–2019), [22] including World Series victories in 2017 [23] and 2022. During the 2022 regular season, the Astros won 106 games, the second-highest total in franchise history..
Houston also learned in May that Dr. John McMullen had agreed to buy the Astros. Now with an owner and not Ford Motor Credit in charge the Astros would be able to compete in the free agent market. [44] In July, the Astros went to Cincinnati leading the National League West, something the Cincinnati Reds were accustomed to doing.
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Basketball Hall of Famers Vince Carter and Tracy McGrady are among 10 limited partners who have joined the Buffalo Bills’ ownership group. The noncontrolling, minority interests were approved ...
Principal owner(s) Operating entities Purchase price Year Acquired Arizona Diamondbacks: Ken Kendrick: AZPB LP, AZPBI Inc. $130,000,000 1995: Atlanta Braves: Atlanta Braves Holdings Inc. Atlanta National League Baseball Club Inc. $450,000,000: 2007: Baltimore Orioles: David Rubenstein: Baltimore Orioles LP, Baltimore Orioles Inc., Baltimore ...
The Astros played at the dome through 1999, then relocated to Enron Field (now Daikin Park) in 2000. The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo continued to be held at the Astrodome until the opening of the adjacent NRG Stadium in 2002 (which coincided with the debut of the Houston Texans, the team that replaced the Oilers). Although the Astrodome no ...