I had no freakin idea. Pitched one game for us, giving up 4 runs in 4 innings. He was only 35 years old, not the oldest, but he was far from his 24-4 1.53 ERA year. Crazy what you find out randomly searching on Baseball Reference.
Another awesome stat from a former Astro Nolan Ryan has 2 of the top 3 hits per 9 innings rate of all-time. Those two seasons were almost 20 years apart (72 and 91)
On top of Ryan owning the all-time hits per 9 for a career. J.R. Richard is 5th all-time, ahead of people like Rivera, Pedro Martinez, and Walter Johnson.
Of the top 25 seasons all-time lowest walkers per 9, 24 of those 25 were pre-1900. The lone season not in there is from 2005, Carlos Silva. Crazy.
Cap Anson hit .335 as a 43 year old. About half the Astros would kill to hit 75 points less than that today. Hell. Cobb hit .357 as a 40 year old.
Pretty sure he pitched the first game ever at Minute maid (enron) for us in an exhibition vs. the yanks
Here are some Enron Field/Minute Maid Park firsts: First pitch: Dwight Gooden (to Chuck Knoblauch) First hit: Jeff Bagwell (single) First home run: Ricky Ledee First run: Craig Biggio (on Bagwell's double in third)
I had no clue Mike Maddux pitched for us as well. Pitched in relieve for that game Gooden pitched. Also, I think my dad and I went to the first 6 games at Enron... so I failed to remember actually seeing them pitch.
There are threads on page one that haven't had a post in well over a week. It's not like there is limited real Estate and thriving threads are about to be bumped to page two.
Did you know that if you take your left shoe off then your right one is left? Spoiler Larry Andersen personally told me that 30 years ago after I asked him to say something funny when I was visiting the Astros locker room as a young lad
Eddie Matthews played for the Astros, as did world series perfect game pitcher Don Larson. Matthews hit his 500th home run while playing for Houston.
Eddie Matthews is criminally underrated as a player and according to my now dead Grandma; quite the good looking man back in the 50's and 60's.
