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Major League Baseball won’t try to disarm the Houston Astros’ plans to pay tribute to their roots by wearing throwback uniforms with a smoking Colt .45 across the chest.
Nobody batted an eye in 1962 when the Astros’ forebears, the Houston Colt .45s, first took the field. But with views toward guns changing over the decades, Major League Baseball balked at the team’s plan to mark its fiftieth season by donning the retro jerseys. League officials said the gun that won the west had no business on the uniforms of the team that moves to the American League West in 2013.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/03/0...retro-uniforms/?intcmp=features#ixzz1ody8sJKD
Nobody batted an eye in 1962 when the Astros’ forebears, the Houston Colt .45s, first took the field. But with views toward guns changing over the decades, Major League Baseball balked at the team’s plan to mark its fiftieth season by donning the retro jerseys. League officials said the gun that won the west had no business on the uniforms of the team that moves to the American League West in 2013.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/03/0...retro-uniforms/?intcmp=features#ixzz1ody8sJKD
