MLB Diversity Business Summit

George R. Brown Convention Center

06.18.13 - 06.19.13

Major League Baseball and the Houston Astros will co-host the second annual MLB Diversity Business Summit, which will provide attendees with access to human resource and procurement executives from

Beyond the Boxscore

Reid Ryan a better pick than Nolan Ryan for Astros, but Luhnow still ultimately controls franchise's fate

By Chris Baldwin

05.16.13 | 7:26 pm

Reid Ryan isn't his father. He's not a baseball legend who can do no wrong in Houston. He's not a cowboy riding in on a white horse to save the day. But he's actually the better ...

CultureMap Exclusive

No wives, no gala: Astros explain cancellation of Women's Center fundraiser, pledge $18 million for kids

By Shelby Hodge

05.14.13 | 1:25 pm

A sharpening of philanthropic focus, the decline in the number of Houston Astro wives and a poor donation ratio were responsible for the team's decision to no longer hold the "Black T ...

Batting zero

Astros move to dump "Black Ties and Baseball Caps" a blow to Houston Area Women's Center

By Shelby Hodge

05.14.13 | 11:11 am

With the worst record in Major League Baseball and with the departure of president/CEO George Postolos, news of the Houston Astros severing their 23-year relationship with the Houston Area Women ...

Houston Astros Bayou Bash

Minute Maid Park

05.25.13

Join the Astros for the Sixth Annual Bayou Bash, a Cajun celebration presented by Budweiser and the Louisiana Association of Convention and Visitor Bureaus.  Prior to the Astros game versu

Shelby's Social Diary

Supermodels join Roger Clemens & J.R. Richard in Minute Maid Park blast for I Am Waters

By Shelby Hodge

04.20.13 | 1:16 pm

With seven alluring supermodels as the support group and five powerhouse gents — including Roger Clemens — as chairs, how could the I Am Waters Foundation luncheon be anything less than ...

Beyond the Boxscore

No Mike Rice tirades will hit the worst team in baseball: Bo Porter vows calm amid Astros whiff city

By Chris Baldwin

04.03.13 | 6:17 pm

It hits Minute Maid like a cold, hard morning — slapping the fans who show for the first afternoon game of the season, slapping anyone who wants to believe these total rebuild Houston Astros ...

Complete Dominance

Yu Darvish goes overpoweringly humble, claims he was "lucky" to nearly throw perfect game

By Chris Baldwin

04.03.13 | 6:03 am

Few pitchers have ever been as dominant as Yu Darvish was in coming one out from history against the Houston Astros. Anyone at Minute Maid Park — even the large swaths of Astros fans ...

Astros Stunned by Yu

Denied! Yu Darvish near perfect game gives Rangers a World Series worthy jolt, but Astros fight shows

By Chris Baldwin

04.02.13 | 10:13 pm

Yu Darvish throws his arms up in the air and smiles as a knock from a career .234 hitter screams into center field. Done in by a lightweight. Maybe, done in by the Houston Astros' surprisin ...

Astros Opening Night Surprise

Rangers stunned by Astros intensity: No payroll team punches first, uses a football fever

By Chris Baldwin

04.01.13 | 12:45 am

When it's over, with the Houston Astros having made the good kind of history, their first bit of American League history, Bo Porter's 25 guys come together one more time in the center of th ...