Dierker pitched one game at Colt Stadium, on Sept. 22, 1964 -- his 18th birthday. "I didn't think I was going to get to pitch, but my birthday came up on the 22nd, and so I guess they had an idea ...

It was so hot on June 10, 1962 at a Colt .45 baseball game that it changed the way baseball is played. ... When watching a game in Colt Stadium, fans took their lives in their own hands, literally.

Colt .45 right fielder Roman Mejias delivered the power with two 3-run homers and Bobby Shantz pitched a complete game. Colt stadium, most famous for mosquitos and extreme heat, was located just ...

Former Houston Mayor “Judge” Roy Hofheinz first presented Major League baseball with the idea of a covered stadium in 1960. ... “I had been down there some for the Colt 45′s stadium outside.

This was the new jerseys the newly named Astros wore for the first five years at their new stadium, the Astrodome. The one thing that didn't change though, from the Colt .45 jerseys to these, ...