Also, the R&B Dickie Thon in a box campaign was scratched, but I don't know what ever happened to it.
Yikes. I did make it all the way through it. I'm not sure if that was a good thing. Found this bumper sticker recently at home. Anyone remember this from 1993?
A photo I've scoured the interwebs for a dozen times and never found: a promo poster from like 92 or so, with the slogan "young guns of the west." Biggio's in the middle, posed like he's talking a grounder but with a huge glove, Bagwell's on one side, and I think Cammy is on the other.
Here is the CREEPY 1989 Astros poster that @Buck Turgidson kept hidden behind his bedroom door growing up. Here is @bobrek checking out the construction of the Astrodome. Just for the hell of it..... I threw this one in. Anyone that is too young to remember baseball in 1980's....... this picture covers it all.
No lie...in my LL days those were my 2 favorite 3Bmen. Wasn't around for the construction, but I do still have the 6" round metal tin replica of the Dome they gave out in '99 or so that I used to (*used to*) store my pot in. And the Jose Cruz wooden bat, and the orange pennant from '81 (I think?), and a child's medium rainbow gut jersey, and the souvenir ball they gave out the home game after Nolan broke Walter Johnson's K record (sponsored by Gulf Oil), etc....
Ha! I remember the excitement of signing Swendell and Drabek. Just didn’t pan out like everyone had hoped.
I was a huge Royals fan dating back to 76. They were my American league team to follow. I choose the Royals because my best friend, Mickey was raised as a diehard Yankees fan and I was raised by a Brooklyn Dodger fan to hate the Yankees. The first game I remember watching on TV of the Yankees with my friend was versus the Royals, so I adopted them. Needless to say Brett became my favorite player. They had epic battles with the Yanks in the late 70's and 80's. In 1986 I worked the All-star game at the Astrodome. I kept one program that I was able to get several autographs on. I was trying desperately to get Brett's attention, he was standing on the field talking to a few players before the game (he didn't play since he was injured). He ignored me the entire time. Lou Whitaker pops his head up over the dugout and says "hey kid do you want some batting gloves?" I was so pumped, I ask Sweet Lou if he'd sign my program and he did. Then Tommy Lasorda's asked if I wanted his, I swallowed my Dodger hate since my pops was still a Dodger fan and told him yeah since my dad loves you. Don Aase and Alan Trammell then walked over. I went over to first base side and was only able to get one. Kevin Bass. So I had given up on Brett. The game was over. I was a little disappointed. I was walking up the stair case towards the fifth level, I think, where were supposed to turned in our money and extra programs. Just as I make a turn in the stair case around the 3rd level Brett comes out of one of the doors about 10 feet in front of me. I just start yelling "Mr. Brett can I have your autograph?" About the third time he sticks his hand straight up in the air, so I pass my program up with a pen, about 3 people pass it up and then it comes back down the stairs to me. I was on cloud 9 as a teenage baseball nut. One of my all-time favorite memories of 80's baseball.
This was posted earlier this year, but in terms of Astros promos, it's got to be one of the best. I wish I knew what year it was; it's probably older than me.
I know that Drabek/Swindell trade was reviled. Or at least my dad very much didn't like it. I was too young to know what to think. I did see Drabek hit a home run in person.
I'm trying to find an image of a bumper sticker with a 1986 Division Champions graphic. We stuck that on a folding steel chair that we would pull out when we had company. That chair with the sticker slapped to the back of it were around for a looooong time.
I had that Warren Moon Moonlighting poster in my room growing up...damn hadn't seen that in a long time f'ing Bills and Chiefs ruined his era
