The Pecan Park Eagle

DEAR MIKE VANCE,
HAVING A WONDERFUL TIME!
BUT SORRY YOU MISSED OUT ON A.J. HINCH!
WISH YOU WERE HERE!
MAYBE NEXT TIME!
MEANWHILE, TAKE CARE,
~ YOUR PALS AT SABR

Check out these two brief film stories of Houston’s first 1962 season as the Colt. .45s. Mike Vance interviewed the featured speakers from that era and then edited the result into an interesting retrospective on those early days of big league baseball in Houston. Friend and colleague Tom Hunter alerted me to these works after reading our most recent column this morning on the first 1962 Colt .45 marketing tour stop in Victoria.

In this Mike Vance two post cards look at Houston’s earliest 1962 moments in the big leagues, Tal Smith, Carl Warwick, and Bob Aspromonte contribute anecdotally to the spontaneously informative content that makes up the ongoing story line. Houston baseball history is the richer for their shared recollections.

Thanks, Mike Vance, for putting together this nice two-part video from your “Post Cards from Texas” series. Had we known about their availability sooner, we would have given them an even earlier shout-out at The Pecan Park Eagle.

Mike Vance is a member of SABR. He also serves full-time as Program Director for the Heritage Society at Sam Houston Park. He is also an extraordinary historian of early Houston and Texas history.

Here is the link to Part I. You will find the continuation link to Part II on your open YouTube menu screen once you’ve finished watching the first part:

Enjoy!

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 Bill McCurdy

Publisher, Editor, Writer

The Pecan Park Eagle

Houston, Texas