Nolan Ryan grew up just south of Houston and spent more than half of his legendary big league career with the Astros and ...

Jerry Grote, the catcher who helped transform the ... Mr. Grote had played two seasons with the Houston Colt .45s, now the Astros, when the Mets acquired him in October 1965 for a player to ...

Longtime Mets catcher Jerry Grote died Sunday at age 81 ... He broke into the bigs with the Houston Colt. 45s (now the Astros) in the second and third years of the franchise’s existence ...