1999 Houston Astros season

1999 Houston Astros season

MLB yearly infobox alt‎
name = Houston Astros
season = 1999
misc = 1999 NL Central Champions

current league = National League
y1 = 1962
division = Central Division
y2 = 1994
Uniform
ballpark = The Astrodome
y4 = 1965
city = Houston, Texas
y5 = 1962
owners = Drayton McLane, Jr.
general managers = Gerry Hunsicker
managers =Larry Dierker
television = KNWS-TV
Fox Sports Southwest
(Bill Brown, Jim Deshaies)
radio = KTRH
(Milo Hamilton, Alan Ashby)
KXYZ
(Francisco Ernesto Ruiz, Alex Trevino)|

The Houston Astros' 1999 season was a season in American baseball. It involved the Houston Astros attempting to win the National League Central.

Offseason

*November 17, 1998: Ken Caminiti was signed as a Free Agent with the Houston Astros. [http://www.baseball-reference.com/c/caminke01.shtml]
*January 19, 1999: Ryan Thompson signed as a Free Agent with the Houston Astros. [ [http://www.baseball-reference.com/t/thompry01.shtml Ryan Thompson Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com ] ]

Regular season

tandings

New stadium

The ballpark was first christened as Enron Field on April 9, 1999, with naming rights sold to the Houston energy and financial trading company in a 30 year, $100 million deal. Astros management faced a public relations nightmare when the energy corporation went bankrupt in the midst of one of the biggest corporate scandals in American history in 2001, and they bought back the remainder of Enron's thirty years of naming rights for $2.1 million, rechristening the ballpark as Astros Field on February 7, 2002. The field was unofficially known as "The Field Formerly Known As Enron" by fans and critics alike, in wake of the Enron scandal. On June 5, 2002, Houston-based Minute Maid, the fruit-juice subsidiary of Coca-Cola, acquired the naming rights to the stadium for 28 years at a price exceeding $100 million.

Based on its downtown location next to the old Union Station buildings, one of the suggested names (and nicknames) is the Ballpark at Union Station, or the BUS. During its days as Enron Field, it was also dubbed "Ten-Run" or "Home Run" Field due to its cozy left-field dimensions. In keeping with this theme while paying homage to its current sponsor, the nickname "The Juice Box" is colloquially used today.

Game log


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