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.

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 ...

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 ...

Colt McCoy revisits an old friend -- AT&T Stadium -- this week. McCoy returns to his home state on Thanksgiving to make his third career start at AT&T Stadium. His first came in 2009 for the ...

Former All-Star center Dwight Howard had devastating news to share with the basketball world on Wednesday night. Howard, a three-time NBA Defensive Player of the Year, revealed that his dog was killed ...

Colt 45 Stadium in Houston, where the Astros played before the Astrodome was built. It was hot, but the main reason I disliked it was the mosquitoes. They were a major-league nuisance.

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.

01/03/1962 - DOMED STADIUM GROUNDBREAKING JAN. 3, 1962, HARRIS COUNTY TEXAS. On the afternoon of January 3, l962, civic leaders and Houston Sports Association members met on the outskirts of Houston.

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, ...