BATON ROUGE — Baseball fans are invited to the original Alex Box Stadium at 1:30 p.m. on Monday for a free autograph session with members of the Houston Astros as the team’s 2009 Caravan passes through Baton Rouge.
Astros manager Cecil Cooper, pitchers Brandon Backe and Geoff Geary, former Astros great Craig Reynolds and broadcaster Brett Dolan will be on hand to meet fans for a 90-minute autograph session.
The Astros will also meet with the LSU baseball team during their visit to Alex Box.
The Astros Caravan is a three-week community outreach tour held each January. Astros players, alumni, coaches and front office staff take part in the tour. The Caravan features visits to schools, hospitals, senior centers, youth complexes, meet-and-greets, luncheons, baseball seminars and free autograph sessions throughout Texas, and parts of Louisiana and Mexico.
The team’s stop in Baton Rouge Monday concludes with a public autograph signing at Academy Sports and Outdoors on Industriplex Boulevard from 3:30-5 p.m.