I ran the centerfield scoreboard 1967-1969. The hand clap were my hands as we did that live.
@Mikey3002 жыл бұрын
Something I'll always remember watching the Pirates getting clobbered by the Astros on KDKA-TV--The Astros knocked four Pirates pitchers out of the box in about two innings. The first guy went out with the usual "Pitcher to the Showers" display; he pulled the shower chain and the stall filled with water. The second went out and the video board showed two sets of eyes underwater, with the caption "Two's Company". When the third guy went out, three sets of eyes appeared and the caption was "Three's a Crowd". Finally, the fourth pitcher went out, four sets of eyes appeared, and the caption was "Anyone for Bridge??"
@billymatthews73463 жыл бұрын
Class...so much Class... vs the product in today's world.
@newmanoutdoors15644 жыл бұрын
some great old footage .
@jehobden2 жыл бұрын
I never got to visit the Astrodome until 1989 for an Astros game. Unfortunately by that time the scoreboard had been torn down to add more seats for the still-bad Oilers not to sell to their games on insistence from their owner, Bud Adams, and he ended up moving the team anyway a few years later. :(
@cherylbean5213 жыл бұрын
First game played April 1965
@robertwayne8089 жыл бұрын
I sure do miss going to games at the Dome. What a terrific ballpark it was.
@joeguajardo5092 Жыл бұрын
Went there in 72-73 saw Willie Mays Hank Aaron 12 years old
@jamesmccormick11739 жыл бұрын
Love the home run scoreboard.
@davidmullens7565 Жыл бұрын
My favorite building in the whole wide world. My first time there was the summer of '67....
@benignobrionesiii4 ай бұрын
Mines was in the early '80s. Maybe '81 or '82. Miss that old scoreboard.
@aaronberns84852 жыл бұрын
America was leagues ahead of their times when it came to stuff like scoreboard numerical and video display screens, and it's very impressive for 1965. All of our smartphones, projectors, LED clocks and computers were widely influenced by this technology.
@mikeypaco11 жыл бұрын
I love you astrodome
@TheWds77711 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing great memories!
@kathylykke23869 жыл бұрын
SURELY, There are people in this great state ours Texas especially this city we live in Houston that want to save the Dome,it's truly a landmark and the first of it's kind in the United States not to say the man behind this was so much ahead of his times with his vision! I PERSONALLY have great memories as a child growing up in the Dome and watching my father pitch baseball games !!!
@oneu9ted9198 жыл бұрын
Yor dad pitched for the Astros?
@kathylykke23868 жыл бұрын
Yes he did indeed!
@thebaseballking50388 жыл бұрын
+kathy lykke what was his name? That's cool.
@kathylykke23868 жыл бұрын
TURK FARRELL
@kathylykke23868 жыл бұрын
OneU9ted YES ASTRO'S & COLT'S
@selloutasaurus7 жыл бұрын
That was Astronaut Gus Grissom on the right in the final shot.
@mjt22316 жыл бұрын
I love Houston so much I can't stand it!
@Ranger2324 жыл бұрын
It would be so cool if the XFL Roughnecks could play in the Astrodome next season.
@mickmeekins529 жыл бұрын
Liking the music. Anybody?
@JENDALL7149 жыл бұрын
You can thank former Dodger Walter O'Malley for the Astrodome! The dome was originally supposed to be in Brooklyn, the city wouldn't give him the funding, so he moved the Dodgers to Los Angeles, and the Astros took the plans and built the Astrodome!
@robertwayne8089 жыл бұрын
+JENDALL714 What did they need an air conditioned domed stadium for in New York? It's not a tropical climate like here in southeast Texas. All they had to do was build O'Malley something like Shea was in Queens.
@Mikey3002 жыл бұрын
Sometime in the 1970s, before the first rebuild on Yankee Stadium, the idea was floated to put a dome on Shea Stadium and AstroTurf it so that it could serve as a home for the Yankees, Mets, Football Giants, and Jets. William Shea, the namesake of the stadium, didn't like the idea (he felt that baseball was best in an open-air park), and the preliminary engineering study showed that the stadium foundations wouldn't support the weight of a dome (they weren't meant to do so in the first place). So, Yankee Stadium got its middle-age overhaul, and the first Meadowlands stadium was built for the Jets and Giants.
@Mikey3002 жыл бұрын
@@robertwayne808 There was a battle between O'Malley and Robert Moses over where the new Dodgers' stadium would be built. O'Malley wanted to build it somewhere near Flatbush Avenue, but Moses supposedly wanted it out in Flushing Meadow, where Shea was built. Now, who would want to root for the "Queens Dodgers", anyway? :D
@jlobiafra2 жыл бұрын
People actually used to dress up to go see baseball, interesting
@BuffaloDoesStuff4 жыл бұрын
What’s the name of the song that plays at the very end?
@1luiszepol5 жыл бұрын
I saw it at a movie: Bad News Bears in Breaking Training.
@armorybrunotjr.32044 жыл бұрын
Yes. There is a scene in the 1977 comedy. "The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training" where the Bears are playing a five-inning preliminary game. The Houston Astros have a cameo as themselves. The huge scoreboard went off when the Bears belted a home run.
@devroshart11 жыл бұрын
It's been over year, I found it online, but can't remember where.