Judge Roy Hofheinz had good reason to be confident as he strode into a meeting room at Chicago's Blackstone Hotel on October 17, 1960. His presentation to the National League owners was on the agenda ...

The idea of a building like the Astrodome once seemed as foreign as sending a man to the moon. But when Major League Baseball awarded an expansion franchise to Houston in 1960, a band of visionaries ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Footage from the ABC13 film archives is taking you to the first Houston Astros game ever played in the legendary Astrodome. The day was April 9, 1965. A sold out crowd of ...

In 1965, broadcaster Lindsey Nelson delivered a unique play-by-play from a gondola 208 feet above the Astrodome field.

Boy do I miss my childhood days of being paraded into the good ole Astrodome to watch the Houston Astros. Walking up those long, wide ramps and your feet sticking to the ground with every step; the ...

The Houston Astrodome, the first indoor major league baseball stadium opened on April 9, 1965. The venue, which was nicknamed The Eighth Wonder of the World, hosted the New York Yankees and the ...

In 1968, they were baseball's biggest names: Mickey Mantle. Hank Aaron. Willie Mays. They, and I, were at the MLB All-Star Game at the Astrodome. To a 9-year-old boy growing up in north Mississippi, ...

It was a coincidence that in the "Year of the Pitcher," Major League Baseball held its All-Star Game at the "Home of the Deep Fly Ball Out." An unfortunate coincidence. On this date in 1968, perhaps ...

HOUSTON — Darren Johnson is an avid Astros fan who found a fun way to get his baseball fix after the season ended. He built a chicken coop that is a 1:55 scale model of the Houston Astrodome. The coop ...

HOUSTON — It was a baseball story that sounded too weird to be true. Supposedly happened 40 years ago, yet the evidence was scant. The tale included a 25-year-old man living in a tent for 10 days on ...

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Texans on Thursday marked the 50th birthday of the Houston Astrodome, the world's first fully air-conditioned multipurpose domed stadium, once dubbed a global wonder and now a ...

It was 50 years ago on this day that the Astrodome, America's Spaceship Rumpus Room, first played host to this, our baseball. The occasion was an exhibition between the Astros and Yankees ... (Image: ...