With runners on first and second schmidt drove a ball off a public address speaker hanging from the astrodome roof in center field.
Glass roof astrodome.
The astrodome once an architectural marvel and host to legends is now home only to rats while the astros fight for a world series win their former stadium fights to keep the lights on.
Billed as the eighth wonder of the world by judge roy hofheinz the 70 000 seat astrodome debuted in 1965 as the world s first domed stadium.
A detail from judge roy hofheinz over the top celestial suite still intact 48 years after it was created.
Photo by ryan holeywell.
It fell for a single moving dave cash to third and larry bowa to second.
The speaker was 117 feet up and 300 feet from home plate and cost schmidt a sure home run by deflecting the ball.
The roof is the most significant of the astrodome s engineering breakthroughs.
This iconic stricter served as an important sports and performance facility in harris county for nearly forty years.
The penthouse is preserved in the crowne plaza near reliant center originally the.
The astrodome s iconic roof provides a dramatic silhouette.
The style of roof had previously been used on domes that spanned 285 feet but the astrodome roof is more than 640 feet across.