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11. Houston Astros

verfasst von : Frank P. Jozsa Jr.

Erschienen in: American League Franchises

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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During the late 1950s in southeast Texas, some prominent business leaders, investors, and politicians formed the Houston Sports Association (HSA). To attract an existing or new Major League Baseball (MLB) team, the HSA promoted the approval of a $20 million bond issue for the construction of a midsized-to-large ballpark at a site in the city’s metropolitan area or somewhere in Harris County. When the city did not receive a team from MLB in 1959, the HSA tried to organize another baseball group and name it the Continental League.

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For references see Frank P. Jozsa Jr., Major League Baseball Expansions and Relocations: A History, 1876–2008 (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009), and James Quirk and Rodney D. Fort, Pay Dirt: The Business of Professional Team Sports (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992).

²Each MLB has a website that includes a franchise timeline. This club has information and data to research at http://www.houston.astros.mlb.com.

Two sources for highlights are the Official Major League Baseball Fact Book 2005 Edition (St. Louis, MO: Sporting News, 2005) and “Teams,” http://www.baseball-reference.com, cited 28 January 2015.

Read “Jim Crane Owner and Chairman,” http://www.houston.astros.mlb.com, cited 22 April 2015, and Maury Brown, “Why Jim Crane Could Become Baseball’s Most Controversial Owner,” http://www.forbes.com, cited 22 April 2015.

See “The Business of Baseball,” http://www.forbes.com, cited 28 January 2015, and “Major League Baseball Valuations,” http://www.bloomberg.com, cited 2 February 2015.

Paul Swaney, “Report: When It Comes to 2014 MLB Fans, the Most Loyal Group is the Cards,” http://www.stadiumjourney.com, cited 23 February 2015

Two sources are Barry Janoff, “Report: When It Comes to 2014 MLB Fans, the Most Loyal Group is the Cards,” http://www.nysportsjournalism.com, cited 23 February 2015, and “MLB Team Loyalty Winners and Losers,” http://www.brandkeys.com, cited 14 February 2015.

Two recent articles about the Astros franchise are Joshua Green, “Extreme Moneyball: The Houston Astros Go All In on Data Analysis,” Business Week (25 August 2014): 1, and John Ourand and David Broughton, “Ratings for Dodgers, Astros Show the Challenges of Starting RSN,” SportsBusiness Journal (29 September 2014): 4.

Titel: Houston Astros
verfasst von: Frank P. Jozsa Jr.
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Buch: American League Franchises
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-25995-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-25996-3

Copyright-Jahr: 2016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25996-3_11