Bart Shirley, who first found widespread local notoriety on the Buc Stadium playing surface as a back for the Ray Texans 50 years ago, receives the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Fifth Annual South Texas Winter Baseball Banquet on Thursday, February 5.  » Full Story

The Astros front office enjoyed a relatively quiet holiday season, with the week between Christmas and New Year's Day bringing little news while everyone enjoyed a little R&R with family. Now that it's Jan. 5, however, yuletide cheer is taking a back seat to another kind of cheer, as trade rumors and speculation that fill the Hot Stove season begin to fade in favor of pitchers and catchers heading to their respective training sites.  » Full Story

Former Astros outfielder Terry Puhl, who spent 14 seasons in a Houston uniform and now heads the baseball program at the University of Houston-Victoria, speaks at the Fifth Annual South Texas Winter Baseball Banquet on Thursday, February 5.  » Full Story

Alabama’s Crimson Tide, the Texas-Pan American Broncs and Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Islanders rally at Whataburger Field March 5-8 for the Fourth Annual Whataburger College Classic.  » Full Story