The Astros finally have their home opener today, coming in with a 1-5 record BUT with a one-game winning streak. The fans who come out to the game, assuming there are some, will be introduced to the ...

Modern American ballparks are surrounded by all the trappings of the fan experience: loud music, fried foods and cold beers, T-shirt guns, mascots dancing while the crowd sings about Cracker Jacks—and ...

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 ...

The Astrodome will be one of the locations used for filming football game scenes in Friday Night Lights, says a state official. The movie, based on a best-selling 1999 book about Texas high school ...

HOUSTON - I have walked into the Astrodome many times in my life, around 300 times…but never this way. On Friday, April 6, I entered the dome alone through the enormous opening in center field. Kind ...

Once billed the “Eighth Wonder of the World,” the long-abandoned Astrodome is arguably still Houston’s most iconic landmark. With its 9.5-acre footprint, domed roof and electrifying scoreboard, the ...

It was the Astrodome, of course, opening almost a decade before the San Diego Chicken made his debut. But it is not too far a leap to suggest the chicken was hatched from the Astrodome. So many who ...