Baseball Fans Arrive at Colt Stadium (1963)

Duration: 0:49

Year Published: 1963

Sound: silent

Description: This news segment for Houston’s KPRC-TV, broadcast on April 7, 1963, shows fans entering Colt Stadium before a Houston Colt .45s exhibition game. Attendees purchase concessions and take their seats. Now known as the Houston Astros, the Colt .45s were established in 1962. The team changed its name three years later when it moved into the Astrodome.