(Editor’s note: During the month of February, The Athletic will highlight each member of the Black Aces, the 15 Black pitchers from either the United States or Canada to win 20 games in a Major League ...

J.R. Richard, a huge, flame-throwing right-hander who spent 10 years with the Houston Astros before his career was cut short by a stroke, is dead at 71. The team announced his death on Thursday but ...

J.R. Richard knows the ups and downs of life ... to the extreme. From 1976 through 1979, the 6-foot-8 right-handed pitcher won 18 or more games each season and topped 300 strikeouts twice for the ...

If you ask any old-time Astros fan — that is the fan who existed before the Killer B’s and the Rocket and Minute Maid Park — who the greatest pitcher in team history is, the answer won’t be Roy Oswalt ...

The Houston Astros announced on Thursday that J.R. Richard, a fearsome pitcher and all-time Astros great, has died at 71. The team did not reveal his cause of death, but released a touching statement ...

Houston Astros legend J.R. Richard, one of the best players in the organization’s history, passed away on Thursday. He was 71 years old. Richard spent 10 seasons with the Astros, spanning from 1971 to ...

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In his only appearance in an All-Star Game, 24 years ago this week, J.R. Richard pitched two scoreless innings, struck out three and had his fastball clocked at 100 mph. Eight days later, he went on ...

For the first time, Major League Baseball is played in Houston as the Cold .45s take on the Chicago Cubs in their first game as a franchise, one that they went on to win 11-2. Bobby Shantz was the ...

A tornado rips through the Astros Spring Training complex in Cocoa, Florida. Tons of damage is done to the area, including three downed light towers, one of which smashed into the stranded at the ...