In 1968, they were baseball's biggest names: Mickey Mantle. Hank Aaron. Willie Mays. They, and I, were at the MLB All-Star Game at the Astrodome. To a 9-year-old boy growing up in north Mississippi, ...

Willie Mays celebrates his 89th birthday Wednesday, but there’s no way he’ll have a cake like the one Astros owner Roy Hofheinz gave him 52 years ago. With Mays and the San Francisco Giants in Houston ...

Nothing symbolized 1968, Major League Baseball’s year of the pitcher, like the All-Star Game played July 9, 1968, at the Astrodome. The game ended in a 1-0 National League victory, the only 1-0 game ...

Elvin Bethea boarded an airplane in San Antonio on a hot July afternoon with the temperature easily approaching 100 degrees. Bethea was back on the football field later that day in Houston, where the ...

Former Houston quarterback Ken Bailey remembers well the last time he played in the Astrodome. Bailey was on the sideline soaking in the spoils of another large victory. The game was down to its final ...