Bilingual Broadcast of Colt .45s Baseball Game (1962)

Duration: 1:47

Year Published: 1962

Sound: sound

Description: This news segment for Houston’s KPRC-TV, broadcast on May 30, 1962, highlights the station’s bilingual radio coverage of a Houston Colt .45s baseball game. Sportscasters gather around a microphone as the audio commentary switches between English and Spanish. Now known as the Houston Astros, the Colt .45s were established in 1962. The team changed its name three years later when it moved into the Astrodome.