Well, it doesn’t have quite the same impact as Remember the Alamo, but the country’s first indoor baseball and football stadium is worth remembering and fans will have a chance to do that next Saturday. Seats, concession equipment, pieces of the turf and other memorabilia will be
sold in a combination yard sale and auction at Reliant Center in Houston.
Seats will be sold in pairs of two for $200 a pair while 12×12” sections of AstroTurf will be sold for $20 each (card companies, are you reading this?).
There will be a limit of four pairs of seats and four sections of turf. All sales will be final. There was no immediate word on an exact inventory although previous stories surrounding the stadium’s future seem to indicate that most of what would be considered valuable or historic was removed from the decaying facility a long time ago.
Among the possibilities is to build a new convention center on the Astrodome property. The Dome opened in 1965 when it was labeled the “Eighth Wonder of the World”. The National Trust for Historic Preservation placed the Astrodome on their annual list of 11 most endangered historic places.
The Astros played their final home game there in 1999. The building has been home to numerous major sporting events including college basketball’s ‘Game of the Century’ in 1968 and the 1989 NBA All-Star Game. Mickey Mantle hit the first home run there during an exhibition game in 1965.
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