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the glove mascot, always something new up his sleeves. bobby dynamite, the train operator and the new dj station. reporter: massive american flag covering the outfield. is that under your direction? coordinator on the field for all activations, we are in constant communication. coordinating all those elements, determining the outcome of the games that we can help them out and get the crowds going giving that energy at the moment they needed. and nothing else. nothing like it. you watch the game and when you are watching it you don t realize how much effort goes into it. when i cover the world series a few years ago when it was the astros of the nationals i did behind-the-scenes with fox sports to show how they put the production from the game on to
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The Astros train, and the man who drives it, by the numbers.
By
Timothy Malcolm
4/1/2021 at 6:00am
Published in the Spring 2021 issue of
Houstonia
No matter what Minute Maid Park looks like during baseball season, we know Bobby Dynamite will be there cheering on the Astros and conducting the old train perched atop the façade of archways 90 feet above left field. Ever since 2001, the year he started the gig, any time an Astro hits a home run, Dynamiteâknown to some as Bobby Vasquezâhops in the replica General 4-4-0 steam locomotive, loaded with plastic oranges in a nod to the stadiumâs namesake, and helps take it down the track, activating those whistles, and causing a general uproar.