On March 18 , 1962 – With Houston Is still three weeks away from it» debut in the National League and the crowds get bigger every week. An estimated 17.000 visited the sites of the Houston Colts’ temporary baseball stadium and the adjacent domed sports stadium, that will be called the Astro Dome, now under construction, Officials of the Colts invited folks out to look the place over after large crowds visited the area the previous two Sundays, Last week a policeman estimated the tournout at 8.500 to 9.000. Ben Gerhart of the police traffic division said most visitors took a look at the stadiums and left A few hundred stayed to hear a broadcast of Houston’s Arizona exhibition game on the stadium speakers.
