This week in 1964, Colt Stadium hosted its last MLB game

This week in 1964, the Houston Colt .45s downed the Los Angeles Dodgers 1-0 in their last game in the rainbow sherbet-colored Colt Stadium and their very last game as the .45s. By the start of the next major league season, Houston’s baseball team would be playing inside the Astrodome just a few hundred yards to the south and find themselves rechristened the Houston Astros.

See more photos of the old stadium that sat just north of the Astrodome for years... less This week in 1964, the Houston Colt .45s downed the Los Angeles Dodgers 1-0 in their last game in the rainbow sherbet-colored Colt Stadium and their very last game as the .45s. By the start of the next major ... more Photo: Houston Chronicle Photo: Houston Chronicle Image 1 of / 102 Caption Close This week in 1964, Colt Stadium hosted its last MLB game 1 / 102 Back to Gallery

This week in 1964, the Houston Colt .45s downed the Los Angeles Dodgers 1-0 in their last game in the rainbow sherbet-colored Colt Stadium and their very last game as the .45s.

By the start of the next major league season. Houston’s baseball team would be playing inside the Astrodome just a few hundred yards to the south and find themselves rechristened the Houston Astros.

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Baseball would soon be played indoors and away from the heat, humidity, and mosquitoes of Houston.

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Of course with the opening of Enron Field over 30 years later, baseball could once again be an outdoor sport, albeit with the help of air conditioning and a retractable roof.

The new team name befitted the new indoor, space-age digs and in some ways teleported the city into the future.

After all, rocket scientists and engineers were smoking cigarettes and figuring out a way to get a man on the moon a mere 30 miles away at the Manned Spacecraft Center.

After the team left Colt Stadium, it largely fell into disrepair and became populated by rattlesnakes and other vermin, sitting idle for a decade until the salvageable parts were taken and moved to Mexico to become a part of a baseball park.

Word has it that once it served its use, pieces of the stadium became a part of a public playground in Tampico, Mexico.

The field was located on the northwest end of the NRG complex, just north of where NRG Stadium now sits. You likely park on top of it during RodeoHouston season.

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It only cost $2 million to construct, a pittance these days, and the single-deck park sat just over 33,000 people. Season tickets topped out at a mere $265.00 for a whole season in 1962.

Outdoor baseball in Houston summers meant plenty of fans dealing with heat exhaustion, including one report of 80 people falling victim during a 1962 doubleheader. Insect repellent was a concession stand item.

There is no romance related to the park aside from maybe childhood memories of games with dear old dad as Houstonians soon learned just how amazing air-conditioned baseball and cold beer could be.

Check out the slideshow above to see images of Houston's old Colt Stadium, the former home of the Houston Colt .45s.