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The 1962 Houston Colt .45s were an expansion team in American Major League Baseball's National League, and 1962 was the first season in franchise history. Harry Craft was Houston's first manager. The .45s finished eighth among the National League 's ten teams with a record of 64–96, 36 + 1 ⁄ 2 games behind the league champion San Francisco ...
The 1962 Major League Baseball expansion was the formation of two new Major League Baseball (MLB) teams for the 1962 season.The Houston Colt .45s (later renamed the Astros) and the New York Mets were added to the National League (NL), becoming the 19th and 20th teams in MLB's two leagues.
Colt Stadium was a Major League baseball stadium that formerly stood in Houston, Texas. It was the temporary home of the expansion Houston Colt .45s for their first three seasons (1962–1964) while the Astrodome was being built, just to the south of it. After its use in Houston, it was dismantled and moved for use in two Mexican cities.
The 1962 Major League Baseball season was contested from April 9 to October 16, 1962. The National League (NL) added two teams via expansion , the Houston Colt .45s and New York Mets . This marked the return of the NL to New York City after a four-year absence, although the Mets would lose 120 games and finish in last place.
Minute Maid Park, home field of the Astros since the 2000 season.. This is a list of seasons completed by the Houston Astros, originally known as the Houston Colt .45s, a professional baseball franchise based in Houston, Texas; they played in the National League from their inception in 1962 to the 2012 season; in 2013, the team was moved to the American League.
The Houston Sports Association was formed in 1957 and bought a minor league baseball team four years later. The group was given a controlling interest in Houston's expansion team, which was named the Houston Colt .45s. It played at Colt Stadium. [12] It would only be a few years later in 1965 that the team
The Boston Red Sox trade 1962 AL batting-average champ Pete Runnels (.326) to the Houston Colt .45s for Román Mejías, who led the first-year expansion team in hits (162), home runs (24), slugging percentage (.445) and runs batted in (76). The veteran players struggle in their new leagues, however, and both are out of the majors by the end of ...
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar ... who played for the Houston Colt .45s from the franchise's inception in 1962 through 1964. ... category "Houston Colt ...