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When Cárdenas left for the Houston Colt .45s before the 1962 season, the year Dodger Stadium opened, Jarrín was paired with Jose Garcia.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 29, 2022

Over the years, these teams met a lot, starting when the 1962 expansion Houston Colt .45s took on the Milwaukee Braves.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 23, 2021

Instead he enrolled at Oakland City College, now a university, where he played baseball before signing with an expansion team, the Houston Colt .45s, in 1962.

From Washington Post • Oct. 12, 2020

He signed with the Houston Colt .45s organization in September 1961 out of Jesuit High School of New Orleans.

From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2018

Next Joe Mondragon himself came in asking for two boxes of .30-30s and one box each of .45s,

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols