The Colt .45s got a step closer to respectability far faster than their expansion brethren because they had an embryonic farm system a year before their National League debut.
One of its stars (15-8, 2.34, 117 K at Jacksonville and Salisbury in 1961) was pitcher Jack Lane, and his reward was a trip to the first Houston camp.
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