Houston Astros

The Houston Astros are an American professional baseball team based in Houston. They compete in Major League Baseball as a member club of the American League West Division and play their home games at Daikin Park. Established as the Houston Colt .45s, they entered the National League as an expansion team in 1962 along with the New York Mets, and the current name, short for the Astronauts, was adopted three years later at the suggestion of astronaut Alan Shepard when the team moved into the Astrodome. They played in the National League until a 2013 realignment moved them to the American League West, and they made their first World Series appearance in 2005.