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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 ...
List of area codes. 229 – Albany, Thomasville, Valdosta, Tifton, Cairo Georgia, Fitzgerald and Americus (southwest Georgia) 404 – Atlanta and immediate environs (central Fulton and DeKalb counties) 470 – Atlanta and its suburbs, overlay area code that covers same area as 678, 770, and 943. 478 – Macon, Forsyth, Fort Valley, Warner ...
2× All-Star (1986, 1989) Silver Slugger Award (1986) Glenn Earl Davis (born March 28, 1961) is an American former Major League Baseball (MLB) first baseman who played for the Houston Astros and Baltimore Orioles from 1984 to 1993 and finished in the top ten in National League MVP balloting three times (1986, 1988 and 1989).
Houston’s offense, 7-17 record aside, has performed like that of a playoff team. To wit, the Astros are fourth in baseball in team wRC+, behind only the Dodgers, Orioles and Braves.
Death, taxes and the 'Stros in the West: After early season struggles, the Houston Astros are back to looking like a force in the AL Jake Mintz August 16, 2024 at 1:21 PM
Jose Altuve and Jeremy Peña homered as the Houston Astros improved to 7-0 in games started by Yusei Kikuchi by beating the scuffling Arizona Diamondbacks 11-5 on Saturday. Peña’s 15th homer ...
Houston's lead in the division was shrinking and the heat of the Houston summer was only matched by the Astros tempers. [25] The Astros were playing great ball. José Cruz and Enos Cabell both stole 30 bases. Joe Niekro had a great year with 21 wins and 3.00 ERA. J. R. Richard won 18 games and set a new personal strikeout record at 313.
After he retired as a player, Snitker became a coach for North Georgia before joining the Houston Astros organization. [1] He served as the hitting coach for the Corpus Christi Hooks in 2018. After the 2018 season, the Astros named him to their major league coaching staff as a hitting coach alongside Alex Cintrón . [ 4 ]