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The Astros and the City of Houston will be honoring Hall of Fame Broadcaster Milo

Houston Astros Hall of Fame broadcaster Milo Hamilton survived a heart attack scare yesterday and is doing OK. Hamilton, who was having Sunday brunch with his son Mark at the Four Seasons, noticed his father wasn't OK. I could tell something wasn't right," Mark Hamilton said. "I said, 'Are you OK?' He said, 'No,' and pointed to his heart. He wanted me to take him home and I said, 'That's not an option.' I...

The Houston Astros are cranking up their public relations machine as part of Major League Baseball's annual Caravan program. Members of the Astros organization, i.e. players (Ausmus, Bagwell & Roy O.), coaches and staff (Milo Hamilton), will be visiting Houston's surrounding areas and parts of Central Texas over the next two weeks. They even squeezed in a casino trip to Lake Charles and a jaunt down south to Monterrey Mexico. So, now's your chance to...

Things are changing in the Astros broadcast booth: Drayton McLane and team President Pam Gardner told veteran broadcaster Alan Ashby yesterday that he won't be returning for the 2006 season. Ashby, who played with the 'Stros for 11 years and has been in the booth with the team for eight years doing color, hoped to do play-by-play for road games next year, but instead, the team will go with a pair of rookies: The Astros...