How the Sports Stadium Went Luxe

In April, 1966, Roger Angell attended an indoor baseball game, his first, at the Astrodome. “It was not just the prospect of witnessing weatherless baseball played on Chemstrand grass under an acrylic-painted Lucite sky that induced me to travel to Houston last month,” Angell wrote, archly, of visiting what was then the world’s only domed stadium. (It had opened a year earlier.)