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08/23/14 10:14 AM
From the Houston Post, April 7, 1927
Buffaloes Debut Major League Baseball in Houston
Houston celebrated the arrival of Major League Baseball on Wednesday afternoon by hosting their fellow Texans in the Buffaloes' home opener.
Mayor Holcombe was escorted onto the field by the Central High School marching band, where he gave a brief speech that was punctuated by train whistles from over the center-field wall. Mayor Holcombe praised the builders of the beautiful new Buff Stadium for having the ballpark complete and ready for use a full year ahead of the original schedule.
In a gracious gesture, former Major League Commissioner Judge Landis - who stepped down after the Supreme Court ruled that the league must be restructured - praised the new stadium at the corner of Calhoun and St. Bernard* as "the finest new stadium in the country."**
Unfortunately, the Buffaloes were unable to send the sell-out crowd home with a win. The Rangers' Pete Scott hit a three-run homer in the first inning, and Houston was unable to recover from that deficit, losing to their Texas rivals by a score of 6-4.
However, neither the loss nor the gray skies could stamp out the joy of seeing Major League Baseball in our great city.
4/6/1927, Tex27-Hou27, Buff Stadium 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E LOB DP1927 Rangers 3 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 6 7 0 4 21927 Buffaloes 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 4 10 3 10 1 Rangers AB R H BI AVG Buffaloes AB R H BI AVGHaney 3b 4 0 0 0 .000 Wilson cf 4 2 3 0 .368 O'Rourke 3b 0 0 0 0 .167 Mokan lf 4 1 1 0 .333Manush lf 4 2 1 1 .222 Burrus 1b 4 1 1 0 .400Harris 1b 4 1 2 0 .313 Koenig ss 4 0 1 2 .412Collins 2b 3 1 1 0 .250 Heilmann rf 3 0 1 1 .357 Bishop 2b 0 0 0 0 .500 Cantwell p 0 0 0 0 .000Scott cf 3 1 2 5 .500 Lutzke ph 1 0 0 0 .167Hartnett c 4 0 0 0 .188 Moore c 2 0 0 0 .000Carey rf 4 0 0 0 .235 Snyder ph 1 0 1 0 1.000English ss 4 0 0 0 .250 Bell 3b 4 0 0 0 .333Underhill p 2 1 1 0 .500 Partridge 2b 2 0 1 0 .357 Falk p 0 0 0 0 .000 Bressler ph 1 0 0 0 .333 Carlyle ph 1 0 0 0 .000 Stewart 2b 0 0 0 0 .000 Zachary p 0 0 0 0 1.000 Ehmke p 3 0 0 0 .000 Rommel p 1 0 0 0 .000 Tyson rf 1 0 1 0 1.000 34 6 7 6 34 4 10 3 Rangers INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERAUnderhill 4.2 6 3 3 5 2 92 46 5.79Falk W 1-0 1.1 1 0 0 1 0 20 12 1.93Zachary H 1 1.2 2 0 0 0 1 23 16 0.00Rommel S 2 1.1 1 1 1 0 1 18 10 10.80 9.0 10 4 4 6 4 153 84 Buffaloes INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERAEhmke L 0-1 7.0 5 6 3 1 0 103 67 3.86Cantwell 2.0 2 0 0 0 0 30 22 0.00 9.0 7 6 3 1 0 133 89 Tex: Carlyle batted for Falk in the 7th Bishop inserted at 2b in the 8th O'Rourke inserted at 3b in the 9thHou: Tyson inserted at rf in the 8th Snyder batted for Moore in the 8th Bressler batted for Partridge in the 8th Stewart inserted at 2b in the 9th Snyder moved to c in the 9th Lutzke batted for Cantwell in the 9th E-Mokan, Bell, Ehmke. 2B-Underhill(1). 3B-Collins(1), Burrus(1). HR-Scott(1). RBI-Manush(1), Scott 5(5), Koenig 2(3), Heilmann(3). K-Wilson, Bell, Ehmke, Bressler. BB-Collins, Wilson, Mokan, Burrus, Heilmann, Moore, Partridge. SH-Haney. SF-Scott, Koenig. WP-Rommel. GWRBI: ScottTemperature: 89, Sky: threatening, Wind: left to right at 5 MPH, Rain Delays: 66 minutes.
* For those inclined to look for this location on a map, you won't find it. That part of Calhoun is now IH 45, and St. Bernard has been renamed as Cullen Boulevard. The stadium site is now a (closed) furniture store. The railroad tracks are still there.
** Landis did attend the opening of Buff Stadium in 1928, and reportedly praised it.
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