This month I return to that driving passion in my life: baseball. Before I made the fateful decision to move to Houston in 1984, one factor had to be satisfied. That city not only had to have a major metropolitan newspaper, but it also had to have a Major League baseball team. The Northeast was in a recession and newspapers were failing. Needing a change of scenery, I accepted an offer from The Houston Post. I didn't know Houston was in the midst of its own downturn and that the Post was doomed to fail (in 1995). I knew the Astros and the Eighth Wonder of the World, the Astrodome, were there. After I showed up, my first question was, "Well, where is it? Where is the Astrodome?" Someone pointed southeasterly and said "right over there," some 6 miles away.
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