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	Ballparks of Baseball-Colt Stadium
		While the Colts.45s played at Colt Stadium, the teams’ new dome stadium, the Astrodome was being constructed beyond the first base grandstand.
		In the late 1960’s Colt Stadium was sold to a minor league Mexican team for \$100,000.
		The stadium was moved once again to Tampico, Mexico where it stills sits today and is part of a public playground.
	www.ballparksofbaseballpast.8m.com /ColtStadium.htm (377 words)

	Ballparks of Baseball-Colt Stadium-Houston Astros
		Houston, TX Home of the Houston Colt.45’s, Colt Stadium was one known as one of the hottest ballparks for both players and fans during its existence.
		While the Colts.45s played at Colt Stadium, their new dome stadium, the Astrodome, was constructed beyond the first base grandstand.
		Colt Stadium remained standing for five years after the Colt.45s left as it served mainly as a storage yard.
	www.ballparksofbaseball.com /past/ColtStadium.htm (355 words)

	Clem's Baseball ~ Colt Stadium
		Colt Stadium was one of those short-lived "mystery" stadiums associated with abrupt relocations and expansions, and I never saw a photo of it (or Sick's Stadium in Seattle) until very recently when I browsed the www.ballparks.com Web site.
		Not only was Colt Stadium hot, it was also plagued by mosquitos, and the difficulty in attracting fans to such an unbearable venue was a prime motivation behind the construction of the climate-controlled Astrodome right next door.
		In the early 1970s Colt Stadium was dismantled and moved to the city of Gomez Palacio, in northern Mexico.
	www.andrewclem.com /Baseball/ColtStadium.html (285 words)

	Ballparkwatch - Colt Stadium / Houston Colt .45s / 1962-1964
		The design of the stadium was on the simple side: a single-tier grandstand went from foul pole to foul pole, with half of the seating flamingo-colored seats and the other half bleachers.
		Colt Stadium stood for a year, used mostly for storage; Astros owner Judge Roy Hofheinz painted the stadium gray so that it could not be seen in aerial photos of the Astrodome.
		Colt Stadium had a second life as a pro baseball stadium when it was sold to the Torrean Cotton Pickers of the Mexico League team for $100,000 and used for several years there.
	www.ballparkwatch.com /stadiums/past/colt_stadium.htm (847 words)

	ESPN.com: MLB - Merron: The Disastrous 'Big Owe'
		In 1991, after a 55-ton beam that had been part of Montreal's Olympic Stadium tumbled to a walkway and forced the Expos to play out their remaining home schedule on the road, Jack Todd of the Montreal Gazette wrote an obituary for the troubled ballpark.
		Stadium is actually dead or whether he is still clinging to life," Todd wrote.
		Colt 45 Stadium in Houston, where the Astros played before the Astrodome was built.
	espn.go.com /mlb/s/2003/0422/1542254.html (909 words)

	Colt Stadium - BR Bullpen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The symmetrical stadium had a single deck and scoreboards on both sides of the centerfield batter's background.
		After the 1964 season, the Colts left the park for their new home, the Astrodome, which was just across Kirby Street from Colt Stadium, and became the Houston Astros.
		Colt Stadium laid in disrepair until the early 1970s when it was bought and moved to Torreon, Mexico, where it became the home of a Mexican League team.
	www.baseball-reference.com /bullpen/Colt_Stadium (282 words)

	Astros in Sound - Colt Stadium and the Astrodome (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Once the new park was finished, Colt Stadium became a dumping ground for broken and discarded items of the nearby "Astrodomain".
		The stadium was initially built at a cost of $35 million dollars, which came out as quite a bargain even by 1965 standards.
		With the new football stadium in its parking lot, the Astrodome, like Colt Stadium before it, is likely to be demolished and paved over in the near future.
	www.astrosdaily.com.cob-web.org:8888 /history/sound/k.html (1246 words)

	Colt Stadium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Colt Stadium was a Major League baseball stadium that formerly stood in Houston, Texas.
		The stadium consisted of an uncovered grandstand stretching from foul pole to foul pole and small bleacher stands in right and left field.
		Colt Stadium junkyard, photo taken February 18, 1973.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Colt_Stadium (211 words)

	Astros in Sound - The Colt .45s
		On some reclaimed marshland south of town, Colt Stadium was built on the same land that would eventually hold its famous successor.
		The weather was always a factor at Colt Stadium but one night a thick fog rolled in to cut short a 7-3 victory over Cincinnati.
		With the team preparing to move into a futuristic new stadium, the judge wanted a new name for his squad - something original for which he could be the plaintiff the next time there was a suit.
	www.astrosdaily.com /history/sound/a.html (2028 words)

	Stadiums of the NFL-Lucas Oil Stadium-Indianapolis Colts (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In December 2004, the Colts and the City of Indianapolis came to an agreement on a new stadium for the team.
		Upon reaching the agreement for a new stadium, the Colts signed a 30 year lease to keep the team in the city.
		Stadiums of the NFL is not associated with the National Football League in any way.
	www.stadiumsofnfl.com.cob-web.org:8888 /future/ColtsStadium.htm (283 words)

	Baseball: A link to the past - Diary of a Mad Househusband - John Pollock (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The subhead continued, "El Mecano Was in Houston And Called Colt Stadium; Today, It Lives in Tampico." Even before I read the article, there were tears in my eyes.
		It was just my luck that, when we moved from southeastern Washington to Houston in 1962, the first Houston Colt.45s (later Astros) game I saw in Colt Stadium, the "temporary" wood and steel stadium which preceded the Astrodome, was against the Dodgers.
		Colt Stadium stood empty for several years after the opening of the Astrodome.
	jpsongs.com.cob-web.org:8888 /househusband/stadium.htm (614 words)

	BallparkTour - Former ballparks of Houston - Astrodome & Colt Stadium (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The architects had prepared a model replica of the proposed domed stadium, and Hofeinz introduced his idea to the owners on October 17 for the very first time.
		While the Astros were dreaming of a team worthy of the stadium they played in, veterans who had won their fame in other cities came and went: Shantz, Robin Roberts, Pete Runnels, Nellie Fox, Johnny Temple, Don Larsen (who pitched the only prefect game in World Series history as a Yankee).
		The floor, which had been dirt since the stadium first opened in 1965 was concreted and the Astroturf was replaced with a new Monsanto "Magic Carpet' system.
	www.ballparktour.com.cob-web.org:8888 /Former_Houston.html (2735 words)

	Major League Baseball Players Alumni Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The five-foot-nine Wynn spent most of his career with teams that played in pitcher-friendly parks, including old Colt Stadium and the Astrodome in Houston, and Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.
		Colt Stadium and the Astrodome may have cost Wynn a some home runs, but both are remembered fondly.
		Instead of dragging the field in the top of the seventh inning, we had to spray it in order to keep the dive bombers away, because they used to carry the fans away.
	www.mlb.com /mlb/features/alumni/wynn.html (875 words)

	Indianapolis Colts Stadium - RCA Dome (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Before the Colts decided to move to Indianapolis, the city already had a dome stadium under construction in 1982.
		The city decided to build the stadium because of its adaptability to accommodate a variety of events, including football.
		Meanwhile in Baltimore, the Colts were dissatisfied with the conditions of Memorial Stadium, and decided to move to Indianapolis after the 1983 NFL season.
	www.nfl-pictures.com.cob-web.org:8888 /stcolts.htm (119 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The "Colts" began play on April 10, 1962, and for the next three years, the team would play in Colt Stadium.
		As with many stadiums of that era, such as RFK Stadium and Shea Stadium, the Astrodome was a multi-purpose stadium, designed for both football and baseball.
		Additionally, it was one of the first stadiums to have luxury seats and club seating, at the time a relatively new concept in sports venues.
	www.gamecheatz.net /games.php?title=Houston_Astros (5520 words)

	The Houston Astros - From the Beginning
		Inside Colt Stadium, where the team played, was a restaurant called “ The Fast Draw Club” which featured an Old West style bar and served “ Hell Fire Stew”.
		Colt Stadium was hell on earth, both literally and figuratively.
		While the Colt people didn’t have a problem with the Houston Baseball Club calling the team the Colt.45’s, they had a serious problem with the way the team was marketing the name of its product.
	www.athomeplate.com /astrosname.shtml (926 words)

	Major League Baseball comes to Houston \| Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
		Meanwhile, the Colt.45s played home games in a hurriedly constructed temporary playing field called Colt Stadium that seated 32,000, situated on part of the huge tract of land on which the Astrodome also would be built.
		In 1964, the team's final season in Colt Stadium, the team matched its previous year's record of 66 wins and 96 losses and again finished ninth.
		As a result the new stadium came to be called the Astrodome.
	www.chron.com /disp/story.mpl/first100/1076173.html (845 words)

	Clem's Baseball ~ Home plate
		NOTES: This table includes "at-risk" stadiums, mostly those that are over 15 years old.
		"Expected demise" (end of baseball use) reflects the stadium's physical condition, the franchise's plans, and the political climate.
		All stadium diagrams © by Andrew G. Clem; photos by Andrew G. Clem, John D. Clem, or others as indicated.
	www.andrewclem.com /Baseball/index.shtml (866 words)

	Loeb Stadium
		Beautiful Bert E. Loeb Stadium, part of the Columbian Park complex in Lafayette has served continuously as the home of the Colt World Series since 1973.
		The stadium has a seating capacity of approximately 3,500 with plenty of standing room.
		Surrounding the stadium are the Tropicanoe Cove water complex and the Columbian Park Zoo.
	www.coltworldseries.com /Stadium.htm (110 words)

	Gene Elston - Audio Clips (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Phillies had won 21 of the first 23 games against the Colts prior to Nottebart's gem.
		Two Colts' errors in the 9th inning allowed the Reds to score the game's only run.
		"A helluva way to get into the record books." Johnson's gem was the last in Colt Stadium, which saw two no-hitters in its brief 3-year major league run.
	www.gene-elston.org /CLIPS.htm (985 words)

	Hale: Recalling those Colt .45s and the ol' Houston Buffs \| Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
		Q: You wrote recently about a baseball game in Colt Stadium that was called because of fog.
		A Colt Stadium Web site says that old facility was dismantled in '70 and hauled to Mexico to become the home of a Mexican League team in Gomez Palacio.
		In the early '50s he was a hot pitcher with the Houston Buffs, and Buffs owner Alan Russell once brought the entire population of Vinegar Bend (one busload) to Houston to watch Mizell pitch.
	www.chron.com /disp/story.mpl/life/hale/3415918.html (758 words)

	HotDog Express for AOL Hometown Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Colt Stadium, home of the Houston Colt.45's 1962-1964
		Municipal Stadium, home of the Kansas City Athletics 1955-1967; the Kancas City Royals 1969-1972
		Sportsman's Park (renamed Busch Stadium in 1953), home of the St. Louis Browns 1909-1953; the St. Louis Cardinals 1920-1966
	hometown.aol.com /jolsen5723/stadiums.html (250 words)

	Texas Baseball Hall of Fame
		The ball club began its new life as the Houston Colt.45s on April 10, 1962, playing in a temporary venue known as Colt Stadium that the Judge had built on the grounds near the rising domed structure.
		In the absence of Smith’s support, it is likely that Judge Hofheinz’s vision of building a domed stadium and bringing Major League Baseball to Houston would have died on the vine.
		With Bob Smith joining the good fight as Chairman of the Board of the Houston Sports Association, public support for the construction of the first domed stadium was obtained, clearing the way for the coming of Major League Baseball to Houston in 1962.
	www.tbhof.org /features/feature-20060322.htm (2659 words)

	Cranks, Rooters and Fans vintage baseball memorabilia and meeting rooms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		On display will be the original Buff Stadium home plate, which for years has not been available for public viewing.
		Colt Stadium was located in the shadow of where the Astrodome was eventually built.
		Nellie Fox played for the Colts, and eventually became the first Colt admitted to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.
	www.cranksrootersfans.com /pg_expos.cfm (684 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		Hofheinz was a flamboyant former judge and mayor of Houston who controlled the Astros until the 1979 season.
		The Houston Colt 45's, the original name of the franchise, began play as an expansion club in 1962.
		In their first game, the Colt 45's beat the Chicago Cubs eleven to two in front of 25,271 fans in temporary Colt Stadium while awaiting the completion of the Astrodome.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/HH/xoh1.html (855 words)

	Houston Astros - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		However, the move was not approved by other National League owners, thus compelling the Astros to remain in Houston.
		This would take the series back to St. Louis, where the Astros won the final game of the NLCS and the final game played at Busch Stadium.
		On June 11, 2003, six Astros combined to no-hit the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Houston_Astros (5526 words)

	ebaseballparks quotes
		I used to hit more home runs early, but this stadium took that notion away, I became more of a slap hitter in this park because the ballpark sort of dictated it."
		There was just no relief, no place to hide.
		I was sitting by Johnny Pesky, and he said that we'd be passing by the stadium on our way in.
	www.ebaseballparks.com /quotes.html (350 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports -- Houston Greats, Houston Sports
		The club played at Colt Stadium, a 32,601-seat temporary venue known for heat, humidity and mosquitoes.
		The facility stood next to the construction site of the Astrodome, and was later sold for $100,000, disassembled and moved to Torreon, Mexico.
		The game is now played at Reliant Stadium and known simply as the Houston Bowl.
	www.signonsandiego.com /sports/nfl/20040126-9999_mz1s26hostn.html (767 words)

	The Houston Colt .45s Baseball Club 1962-1964
		A new stadium (COLT STADIUM) was built south of Downtown Houston.
		But from 1962 through 1964, fans braved the heat and mosquitoes in COLT STADIUM to watch their new hometown baseball heroes THE COLT.45s battle the superstars of the baseball world: Willie Mays, Sandy Koufax, Stan Musial, Don Drysdale and many others.
		Colts decal - ballplayer on pony 2nd decal - ballplayer on pony
	thompsonian.info /colts.html (2253 words)

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