— 📻🎤RadioRewinder (@RadioRewinder) May 17, 2020
Well, we should be in baseball season right now watching the Houston Astros (or insert your favorite team here), but old coronavirus took care of that.
Twitter account RadioRewinder takes us back to that other Houston baseball team, the Colt .45s, and a radio poster from the 1962 season.
A stamp on the ad says Morningside College Library Sioux City, Iowa. Glad Morningside is keeping track of Houston history for us!
The ad reads, "Major League Baseball has come to Houston! And all games are broadcast on KPRC! Houston's Major League Radio Station. Represented nationally by Edward Petry and company."
According to Wikipedia, the Roy Hofheinz and Craig. F. Cullinan, Jr., owned team's broadcasts were on 950 KPRC-AM and channel 13 KTRK. On KTRK, Al Helfer, Gene Elston and Guy Savage called the game on KPRC it was Al Helfer, Gene Elston and Loel Passe.
Baseball Reference says the Colt .45s' record was 64-96 finished 8th in National League.
The attendance for Colt Stadium was 924,456.
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