HOUSTON (AP) — Former major league All-Star and flame thrower J.R. Richard has died at 71. Richard spent 10 years with the Astros before his career was cut short by a stroke in 1980. The team ...

Last night was Major League Baseball's All-Star Game. The Houston Astros had three players named to the team, but only Kyle Tucker actually participated in the American League’s 3-2 loss to the ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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(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 ...

The story of famed Houston Astros Fastball Pitcher J.R. Richard, from his high school days in Louisiana, his first round draft pick in 1969, to the massive stroke he suffered in 1980, to his ...

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 ...

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 ...