Houston Astros | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-28

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00:01:51 1 Franchise history
00:02:01 1.1 Major League Baseball comes to Texas
00:07:01 1.2 1962–1964: The Colt .45s
00:09:23 1.3 1965–1970: The Great Indoors
00:16:40 1.4 1971–1974: The boys in orange
00:18:44 1.4.1 The Big Trade
00:21:23 1.5 1975–1979: The rainbow era
00:29:24 1.6 1980–1985: On the Brink
00:36:49 1.7 1986–1990: Lighting a Fire
00:43:00 1.8 1991–1999: Fine tuning
00:47:57 1.9 2000–2004: New ballpark
00:52:24 1.10 2005: First World Series played in Texas
00:57:41 1.11 2006–2010: The decline
01:03:04 1.12 2010–2014: Last years in the NL and move to the AL West
01:10:21 1.13 2015–present: Sudden success and first World Series title
01:19:42 2 Achievements
01:19:51 2.1 Franchise record
01:20:05 2.2 Awards
01:20:39 2.3 Team captains
01:20:56 2.4 Team records
01:21:05 2.5 Retired numbers
01:21:44 3 Hall of Fame
01:21:53 3.1 Baseball Hall of Fame members
01:22:03 3.2 Ford C. Frick Award recipients
01:22:11 3.3 Texas Sports Hall of Fame
01:22:21 4 Current roster
01:22:30 5 Spring training
01:23:04 6 Minor league affiliations
01:23:36 7 Radio and television
01:26:28 8 Mascots



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The Houston Astros are an American professional baseball team based in Houston, Texas. The Astros compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) West division, having moved to the division in 2013 after spending their first 51 seasons in the National League (NL). The Astros have played their home games at Minute Maid Park since 2000.The Astros were established as the Houston Colt .45s and entered the National League as an expansion team in 1962 along with the New York Mets. The current name—reflecting Houston's role as the control center of the U.S. crewed space program—was adopted three years later, when they moved into the Astrodome, the first domed sports stadium.
The Astros played in the NL from 1962 to 2012, first in the West Division from 1969 to 1993, followed by the Central Division from 1994 to 2012. The team was reclassified to the American League West from 2013 onward. While a member of the NL, the Astros played in one World Series in 2005, losing in four games to the Chicago White Sox. In 2017, they became the first franchise in MLB history to have won a pennant in both the NL and the AL, when they defeated the New York Yankees in the ALCS. They won the 2017 World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers, winning four games to three, earning the team, and the state of Texas, its first World Series title.