The Texanist: Do Rural Texans Still Love Local Baseball?
A Conroe man remembers the glory days of the Ballinger Cats and his hometown Rabbit Twisters.
A Conroe man remembers the glory days of the Ballinger Cats and his hometown Rabbit Twisters.
Spring family fun is blooming in Round Rock and you and your family are invited to join for a thrilling weekend getaway.
While the Astros found a way to steal the AL West regular-season crown, the Texas Rangers are falling apart at the worst possible time.
Until recently, a new Sonic restaurant was the small Texas city’s big news of 2023. Now it’s Needville in the Little League World Series.
While negotiating his Major League Baseball rookie deal in 2007, the Texas Rangers' newest ace started his career with the independent-league Fort Worth Cats.
A blockbuster deal for Max Scherzer is intended to shore up the Rangers' pitching rotation and keep the team atop the American League West standings.
The injury-depleted Astros should be having a nightmare season. But surprise performances from little-known players have kept Houston winning.
Before Pete Delkus was known for joshin’ it up on the news, he was a sidearm pitcher who nearly made it to the major leagues.
The Horned Frogs have won 19 of their last 21 games and are undefeated in the postseason as they head to Omaha.
No other school in the state—not UT, not A&M, not Texas Tech—has made the last nine NCAA tournaments in a row.
Cross off a few items on your bucket list this summer in Round Rock.
Before he began his pro baseball career, Jackie Robinson spent a season on the hardwood for Austin HBCU Samuel Huston College.
Hurtado Barbecue, an Arlington favorite, is now open at Globe Life Field, serving giant beef ribs and birria tacos just in time for opening day.
The most strikeouts ever. The most no-hitters ever. With those records, Nolan Ryan could afford to take it easy in retirement. But he never left the game behind.
From Staubach to Mahomes, Darrell Royal to Coach Pop, Lee Trevino to Simone Biles, here are sixteen figures who have defined Texas sports.
The real estate developer who engineered a deal to buy the 134-year-old minor league baseball franchise thinks new team ownership can help transform the city’s urban core.
In 2007, Texas Country Reporter met Sister Damian, the Houston Astros’ most patient and faithful baseball fan.
There was crying in baseball after a Pearland pitcher beaned a Tulsa batter on Tuesday. What happened next might restore one’s faith in humanity.
Fifty years ago, a minor league game in Midland was postponed for the rarest of reasons—a swarm of grasshoppers biblical in its proportions.
Texas baseball is back. Plus: pickles so good they transport you back to childhood.
With the Sugar Land Skeeters set to become the Space Cowboys, what will become of the mascots for the Houston Astros' AAA squad?
Sam Houston was his only Division I offer coming out of high school. Three years later, the outfielder from Cypress is headed to the Majors.
A talented infielder and a strong hitter who played around the world, he created an early iteration of the protective gear that now keeps baseball players safe.
Texas lost a heartbreaker in the NCAA semifinals Saturday night, but Coach David Pierce's team had a season to remember.
Lingering anger over the Houston Astros cheating scandal has turned a day at the ballpark into a powder keg of fan misbehavior.
From tossing trash cans to renaming the Astros the “Houston Asterisks,” baseball fans won’t let Houston forget the 2017 cheating scandal.
We salute the Sugar Land Lightning Sloths, the Amarillo Sod Poodles, and their compatriots.
The team finished in last place in front of cardboard fans in 2020, but it’s the first in American pro sports to reopen to full capacity.
As a longtime fan, I haven’t forgiven the team for cheating, but the Astros are bigger than a handful of players or a few seasons of baseball.
The Houston Astros owner decided to defend every bad PR move his organization has made.
The new Arlington baseball stadium has an approach that's, well, out of left field.
Uri Geva is hoping that his Collegiate Summer Baseball Invitational proves that it is—but experts are skeptical.
Baseball has its own way of enforcing the rules.
In the wake of the organization's missteps, it must reckon with its culture this offseason.
It’s the players, not the front office, who are giving fans something to cheer for this World Series.
As Houston begins its playoff run, let’s pause and appreciate the Cy Young contenders who powered this season’s best team in baseball.
The team is abandoning 25-year-old Globe Life Park for a shiny new stadium next door.
Home Run Dugout’s first location, at Dell Diamond in Round Rock, is funded in part by Nolan Ryan’s Ryan-Sanders Baseball, and is just the start of their plans.
The ballpark tradition of serving up improbable foodstuffs to Rangers fans continues.
Plus, host Andy Langer checks in with the Longhorns’ Omaha-bound first baseman, who made national news of his own back in April.
If they keep this up, it’ll be an historic season.
Three new venues—Warstic, the Long Time, and Rocker B Ranch—offer fresh ways to get in touch with your inner baseball fan.
The Astro transformed from a young talent to the team's elder statesman.
Yeah, the Astros really pulled it off.
Meet the furry good luck totem of Houston Heights.
Compared to Super Bowl LI, the World Series has something different to offer Houston.
Bobby Vasquez talks about the best job in the world and a very lucky pair of overalls.
John Bateman died in 1996. So how is he tweeting every single day?
"Good news, kids! The Astros have the chance to win the World Series tonight. Oh, and you're not going trick or treating."
An eleventh inning homer can be dangerous for your health. Play it safe and watch the World Series with friends and a beer.