Wikipedia - "Colt Stadium was a Major League baseball stadium that formerly stood in Houston, Texas. It was the home of the Houston Colt .45s. It was their temporary home from 1962-1964 while the Astrodome was being built, just to the south of it. The stadium consisted of an uncovered grandstand stretching from foul pole to foul pole and small bleacher stands in right and left field. One baseball annual published just before the 1962 season referred to it as 'a barn-like thing'. It is best remembered for the horribly hot and humid weather (and attendant mosquito population) that had necessitated building the first domed stadium."
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