The play of this year's Astros reminds Mickey Herskowitz of the 1963 Colt 45's. That team couldn't hit, and pulled a publicity stunt at the end of the season:

Two days before the end of the season, they pulled off a classic public relations stunt against the Mets. They started an all-rookie lineup, one that averaged 19 years, 8 months.

Pitcher Jay Dahl was 17. Four were 19, including Rusty Staub. Joe Morgan and Jerry Grote were 20. At 21, outfielders Jimmy Wynn and Aaron Pointer were elders.

Morgan made it to Cooperstown and the World Series; Staub, Grote and Wynn made the Series. Pointer's career was short, but he stayed in sports as a game official for the NFL. His sisters, Ruth, Anita, Bonnie and June, formed a singing group under their own name: the Pointer Sisters.

They had more hits than the '63 team.

Ouch.