Six decades ago, Roy Hofheinz believed that the notion that Texas should have two major league baseball teams was about the silliest thing he’d ever heard. One was sufficient, and not coincidentally, he happened to own it: the Houston Astros.On this matter, he was not to be trifled with. He’d been a state legislator at 22 years old, a Harris County judge at 24, and Houston mayor at 40. He had power and knew how to wield it. He was also a gifted charmer and a politician in the best tradition of Lyndon Johnson. He’d worked MLB owners so doggedly in the late 1950s that they perhaps felt they had no choice but to give Houston an expansion franchise, if only to make the man…
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