Several of those associated with the Buffaloes continued with the Colt .45s major league team including manager Harry Craft.

[2] Following the war, a newspaper article in The Daily Telegraph was published that detailed the first baseball game by a Houston team.

[4] The Houston Nationals represented the city along with Galveston, Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio, and Waco.

[10] On July 23, 1888, during mid-season, the team was completely reorganized at an evening meeting of stockholders at Houston City Hall.

Robert Adair, who had served as financial secretary and Texas League president until this point,[5] purchased the majority stake in the club for $1,000 USD which was effective the next day.

Despite winning the Texas League in play, the Mud Cats were withheld the pennant until they paid their overdue membership fees for the season.

McCloskey remained with Houston for the next season, but in 1891, the Texas League did not play due to an inability to get financial backing.

The next season heralded more change for the team, as Pickering was called up to the big league by former manager McCloskey to play for the Louisville Colonels.

[21] Although performing well for the beginning, the team discovered that their home stadium, the Houston Base Ball Park would be demolished in the middle of their season.

[23] At the time, the city's streetcars did not reach to this part of Houston, and fans were forced to ride the rest of the way in horse-drawn carts.

[22] The 1905 season marked a point of stabilization for the franchise as reflected by the team's name, which remained as the "Houston Buffaloes" until their demise.

A stark contrast from the previous season, the Buffaloes began playing in a brand new ballpark known as "West End Park".

On October 27, 1908, Claude Rielly officially sold the Houston Buffaloes to Otto Sens and J. Doak Roberts.

[24] With new ownership, veteran big leaguer Hunter Hill, who had played with the St. Louis Browns and Washington Senators, was hired as a first-year manager.

During that period, star players such as brothers Dizzy Dean and Paul Dean, Solly Hemus, Vinegar Bend Mizell, Hal Epps, Don Gutteridge, Al Papai, Joe Medwick, Frank O. Mancuso, Harry Brecheen and Howie Pollet prepped in Houston on their way to the major leagues.

With stars like on the roster like Red Worthington, Carey Selph, George Watkins, Ray Powell, Bubber Jonnard, Heinie Schuble, Tex Carleton, and Frank Snyder, the Houston Buffaloes took the Texas League championship that year.

In the 1931 season, led by former Cardinals outfielder Joe Schultz, Sr., the Buffaloes' had 108 regular-season victories (in 159 games) and won the Texas League championship.

[28] The Buffaloes' most notable period came between 1939–41, when, as a Cardinal farm managed by Eddie Dyer and laden with talent, they won three straight Texas League pennants, winning 97, 105 and 103 regular-season games in the process.

During the 1959 season, a young television reporter with ABC affiliate KTRK-TV, Dan Rather, sat in with Passe as the play-by-play announcer for the Buffs' radio broadcast.

At the same time, the City of Houston, through a group of local business leaders known as the "Houston Sports Association", was selected as one of the eight members of a planned "third major league", the Continental League, but plans eventually fell through after team owner Marty Marion could not come to an agreement to sell the team.

[33] However, on October 17, 1960, the National League granted an expansion franchise to the Houston Sports Association in which their team could begin play in the 1962 season.

[38] The Buffs played one last minor league season as the top farm team of the Chicago Cubs in 1961 before being succeeded by the city's NL club, the Colt .45s (known since 1965 as the Houston Astros).