The Texas Baseball Hall of Fame is proud to announce that another former member of the original 1962 Houston Colt .45s has joined its Executive Board of Directors. On Thursday, January 12, 2006, former fine-fielding 3rd baseman and clutch power hitter Bob Aspromonte was elected to the Board to replace the late Howard Green of Fort Worth who died last October.

In signing up for duty with the TBHOF, Aspromonte reunites with his 1962 Colt .45 teammate, Carl Warwick, as a partner in a leadership group that is now fully committed to the realization of the organization’s goals of celebrating the excellence and preserving the history of Texas baseball in a first class, complete, and entertaining way. Warwick, who joined our Board in April 2005, was a compactly built power-hitting outfielder for Houston’s original 1962 National League club. 

Aspromonte and Warwick are both inducted members of the TBHOF and they are each Houston residents who have achieved great success in the business world. Teaming with fellow inductee and former great Major League 1st baseman Eddie Robinson of Fort Worth, the TBHOF baseball veterans leadership contingency segment of our Executive Board now contains three deeply-rooted baseball men of high vision, unimpeachable character, positive energy for results, and much practical business savvy about how to get things done. Factor in Jimmy Wynn, another tremendously talented and former Houston Colt .45 of great character—and a key member of our Advisory Board—and the rest of us are only enhanced by the dedicated presences and commitments of all these successful baseball people to this effort.

Our goal for a TBHOF museum presence in Houston remains firmly embraced now by even stronger hands. Our preference is for the development of a joint venture with the Houston Astros—one in which we come prepared as fair-share partners, with help from those of you in the baseball community who are willing to join with us as stewards of Texas baseball history—to get the job done right.

Our dream is big, but it is not impossible, nor is it one that will unfold without practical and detailed attention to all factors impacting the Houston market and its willingness to successfully support a museum here that appropriately honors Texas baseball history. We have on board now a leadership group that is capable of making those assessments and succeeding—with your help.

For those of us who grew up in this town, especially, the truth about our place is well understood. Houston is a can-do city with a big heart and a great heritage for doing the right thing—when the right thing comes along, and it is presented in the right way. 

Thank you, Bob Aspromonte, Carl Warwick, Eddie Robinson, and Jimmy Wynn for joining with us at the TBHOF as members of our Executive and Advisory Boards. With the collective power of your passions for baseball history driving the wheel, and your combined wisdoms about business also working for us on practical matters, nothing is impossible here.

It’s time to do the right thing—and in the right way.

- Bill McCurdy