HOUSTON — As a quarterback and linebacker for his high school football team in LaMarque, Tex., Jeff Banister sometimes played at the Astrodome. His team would enter through the loading dock, and Banister figured he could sneak in the same way to watch baseball. He would pay to park in the stadium lot, and then make his move.
“I didn’t have anything past $2.50 and enough gas in the car to get back home,” Banister said, “but I was going to come watch the Astros.”
Banister laughed and said to tell Reid Ryan, the Astros’ president for business operations, that he would not be paying any back ticket fees.