Colt Stadium was a Major League baseball stadium that formerly stood in Houston , Texas . It was the temporary home of the expansion Houston Colt .45s for their first three seasons ( 1962 – 1964 ) while the Astrodome was being built, just to the south of it.
23-515: After its use in Houston, it was dismantled and moved for use in two Mexican cities. The stadium consisted of an uncovered one-level grandstand, stretching from foul pole to foul pole, with small bleacher stands in right and left field. One baseball annual published just before the 1962 season referred to it as "a barn-like thing." It is best remembered for the horribly hot and humid weather (and attendant mosquito population) that had necessitated building
46-405: A Tampico playground until that, too, was demolished. El Mecano became the only major league ballpark to be sent down to the minors and the only one to play host to three professional teams in two nations. 1962 Major League Baseball season The 1962 Major League Baseball season was contested from April 9 to October 16, 1962. The National League (NL) added two teams via expansion ,
69-464: A fielder's choice, and scored after another error. Against the hapless New York Mets late in both teams' first season, only 1,638 attended the first game of a doubleheader on Saturday, September 8, 1962. The three seasons combined to 2,369,731; the first season at the Astrodome drew 2,151,470 in 1965. By the early 1970s, Colt Stadium had become a county tax liability, with a lien on it. In 1971, it
92-726: A large presence of Tigres supporters) at Foro Sol . Despite injuries to key Tigres players, the team won its eleventh championship against the Sultanes de Monterrey , 4–1, in a best-out-of-seven series. Pitchers Catchers Infielders Outfielders Manager Coaches [REDACTED] 7-day injured list ~ Development list # Rehab assignment ∞ Reserve list ‡ Restricted list § Suspended list † Temporarily inactive list Roster updated November 19, 2024 Transactions → More rosters: MiLB • Mexican League The following Hall of Famers played and/or managed for
115-539: A soft drink company. The stadium was popularly known as the Estadio Mecano or Millón de Tuercas (Million Screws) due to its ability to be assembled and its resemblance to an Erector set. In 1981, the owner of Unión Laguna, Juan Abusaid Ríos, had a falling out with Governor of Coahuila José de las Fuentes . Abusaid sold the team to the Sindicato de Trabajadores Petroleros de la República Mexicana (Union of Oil Workers of
138-429: Is now the northwest corner of NRG Center . Much of the northern half of the stadium (center field, left field and the third base stands) is occupied by a power station, and home plate was approximately located where a light pole in the adjacent parking lot is. The stadium was the site of two no-hitters, both thrown by Houston, but the visitors scored in both and one was a Colts' loss. In 1963 , Don Nottebart shut down
161-634: Is part of the Southern Division ( Zona Sur ). The team has won twelve championships to date: 1955, 1960, 1965, 1966, 1992, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2011, 2013, and 2015. The Tigres were founded in Mexico City in 1955 as the Tigres del México (English: Mexico Tigers), and played there through the 2001 season. After a brief stint in Puebla as the Tigres de la Angelópolis , the team relocated to Cancún. The team
184-633: The Houston Colt .45s and New York Mets . This marked the return of the NL to New York City after a four-year absence, although the Mets would lose 120 games and finish in last place. All major league teams now played 162-game schedules, which had been adopted by the American League (AL) the prior season, with each team facing the nine other clubs in the same league 18 times during the season. The New York Yankees won
207-708: The NFL season started in mid-September, dropping the option clause for affiliates to carry baseball or football in place since 1957 . The All-Star Game , the National League tie-breaker series , and the World Series aired on NBC. Tigres de Quintana Roo The Tigres de Quintana Roo (English: Quintana Roo Tigers) are a professional baseball team in the Mexican League based in Cancún , Quintana Roo , Mexico . The team
230-611: The Philadelphia Phillies on May 17, but an error in the fifth inning and two sacrifices scored a run for the visitors; Houston won, 4–1. The following year , knuckleball thrower Ken Johnson kept the Cincinnati Reds hitless on April 23, but an unearned run scored by Pete Rose in the ninth broke a scoreless tie and the Reds won, 1–0. With one out, Rose bunted and reached second on Johnson's throwing error, advanced to third on
253-468: The 1985 season, this time without the stadium. The Mexico City Tigers bought the stadium with the intent of moving it yet again to serve as the club's new home, but with the venue already showing structural weakness after years in the humid Tampico climate, the plans were scuttled. Ultimately, some rows of seats were reassembled at a ballfield in Pasteje, Jocotitlán , State of Mexico, and the others remained in
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#1732852418161276-462: The 2009 season, Enrique "Che" Reyes was replaced by Matías Carrillo as manager . Carrillo, a former major league player for the Florida Marlins , had been a successful player for Tigres from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s having won five championships as player. The Tigres continued to be a competitive squad under Carrillo and reached the 2009 final series, but lost to Saraperos de Saltillo . It
299-635: The AL pennant, while the NL regular season concluded with the San Francisco Giants and Los Angeles Dodgers having identical records, 101–61. A three-game tie-breaker series was held, which was won by the Giants, two games to one. The Yankees then defeated the Giants in the World Series , four games to three. CBS and NBC continued to air weekend Game of the Week broadcasts. CBS dropped its Sunday broadcasts once
322-637: The Mexican League championship in their inaugural season, an achievement that has never been matched, and was dubbed: " El equipo que nació campeón " (English: The team that was born as champion ). The Tigres are a perennial powerhouse and have won 18 division and 12 league championships since their inception. On 14 April 1955, the Tigres made their debut at the Julio Molina ballpark in Mérida, Yucatán . In 1966,
345-713: The Mexican Republic), which moved the franchise to Tampico , Tamaulipas . While the stadium was taken down in Torreón and moved to Tampico, the franchise spent the 1982 season in Monclova, Coahuila as the Astros de Monclova. In 1983, the Astros became the Astros de Tamaulipas, playing three full seasons at the stadium, known in Tampico as the Estadio Ángel Castro. The franchise moved again after
368-550: The Tigres toured Japan, losing all their 13 games played against Japanese teams. The Tigres played in Mexico City from its inception until 2001, when the team moved to Puebla City . The team was known as Tigres del México or Tigres Capitalinos. During these years, the team played at the Parque del Seguro Social and later at the Foro Sol , starting in 2000, after the Parque del Seguro Social
391-507: The championship more significant. Furthermore, the 2005 season was named "Ing. Alejo Peralta" in memory of the Tigres' founder and father of the then-owner. At the end of the 2006 season, the club's president, Carlos Peralta , announced that the team would move to the city of Cancún , Quintana Roo . The team was renamed the Quintana Roo Tigres, and began play in Beto Ávila Stadium . For
414-399: The field. Monsanto engineers also used it as a testing ground for its synthetic ChemGrass, later known as AstroTurf , inviting cars and horses to ride on the synthetic surface to gauge its durability. It sat abandoned for ten years, accumulating random odds and ends from nearby Astroworld and weathering in the blistering Texas sun. The right field corner of the stadium was located in what
437-474: The first domed stadium. The field was conventionally aligned northeast (home to center field) at an elevation of 50 feet (15 m) above sea level . Temporary from the outset, the stadium was abandoned when the Astrodome was completed for the 1965 season. The Astros occasionally used it for running and exercising to acclimatize players to warm weather before a road trip. However, the players had to be careful, as rattlesnakes would often take up residence on
460-500: Was demolished in order to build a shopping mall. On their last two seasons in Mexico City, the Tigres won back to back championships, defeating rivals Diablos Rojos del México . In 2002, the team moved to Puebla and changed its name to Tigres de la Angelópolis. In commemoration of their first 50 years of competition, an alternate logo was designed in 2005. The Tigres played their 50th season relying only on Mexican players, making
483-522: Was founded by industrial businessman Alejo Peralta , and was long owned by his son, Carlos Peralta . The team was purchased by an ownership group including Major League Baseball All-Star pitcher Fernando Valenzuela in 2017. They have a competitive and long-standing rivalry known as the Guerra Civil (Civil War) against their former crosstown rivals the Diablos Rojos del México . The Tigres won
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#1732852418161506-531: Was sold to the owners of the Algodoneros del Unión Laguna , a Mexican League team, and was dismantled and shipped in pieces over the next four years to Torreón , Coahuila , Mexico , for use as the team's home venue. Renamed Estadio Superior in a naming rights deal with a beer sponsor, Unión Laguna used the stadium between 1975 and 1981. It was located near the Estadio Corona soccer stadium on land used today for
529-411: Was two years later, in 2011, when the team reached the final once more, this time facing their perennial rival: the Diablos Rojos del Mexico . In 2011, the Tigres and Diablos would play their eighth finals series against each other since 1966. The Tigres entered the 2011 series as an underdog. Nevertheless, the best-out-of-seven series ended with a 4–0 sweep against Diablos before a sell-out crowd (with
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