The Houston Astros shifted to the American League for the 2013 season after spending the first 51 years of their existence in the Senior Circuit.
Don’t know about you, but it’s probably going to take this semi old-timer another few years to remember that they’re an AL club on first reference.
To this child of the ’70s, they’re still the Astros of Jose Cruz and J.R. Richard, of the eighth wonder of the world and Astroturf, and especially the Astros of the gaudy/gorgeous rainbow jerseys.
Taking nostalgia and faulty memories out of it, however, there’s something else we should be calling the Astros besides a product of another time.