zzyzzogeton wrote: ↑Thu Mar 25, 2021 3:53 pm
I remember doing the same with the 45 Colts/Astros games. The ONLY pro baseball game I went to until after college was to one of the Astros' games their first year in the Astrodome. When the Senators moved to Texas in 1971, I was often distressed trying to decide which game to listen to. I solved that dilemma but asking for a 2nd transistor radio for Christmas.

I grew up a Cardinals fan as did many kids in Texas at the time. The Cardinals had many radio broadcast affiliates in Texas and a minor league franchise in Houston. My dad, grandpa, and uncles were Cardinals fans. Some of my earliest memories are of listening to the Cardinals games while sitting on the porch at my grandparents. When the Colt 45s started as an expansion team, the owners decreed all of Texas to be Colt 45s “territory”, and forbade the broadcast of any other National League team’s games from stations located in Texas.
That meant thereafter I had to get the Cardinals broadcast from KMOX in Saint Louis or KVOO in Tulsa, neither of which I could get until after dark. Being a kid, I didn’t understand business and why the Houston team owners would do such a thing to deny me the games of my beloved Cardinals! And thus began my lifelong dislike of the Colt 45s/Astros! I still despise them to this day.
I have been to Astros games in Houston a few times though - to see and cheer for the Cardinals. I went there the first year the Astrodome opened (1968 IIRC) to see Bob Gibson throw a complete game shutout, to my delight.
Ken