Race of races: who will be Houston's next mayor? Brown is a lame duck. White is a long shot. The front-runners are black and Hispanic. Got it? (on Politics).

Texas Monthly, September, 2002 by Patricia Kilday Hart

WHEN THE LATE JUDGE ROY HOFHEINZ BROUGHT major league baseball to Houston in 1962, he dreamed of tapping into the market of millions of Spanish-speaking baseball fans in Texas and south of the border. He wanted a broadcaster to present the exploits of the Houston Colt .45's en espanol over the radio airwaves. Hofheinz's search for a play-by-play man took him to Venezuela, where he found Orlando Sanchez-Diago, a refugee from the recent Cuban Revolution, and brought hito and his family to Houston. Never had Hofheinz been so prescient about his beloved city. Forty years later Hispanics make up 37 percent of Houston's population--the largest share of any ethnic group--and therefore hold the key to the city's future, not only in sports attendance but also in politics. And right now...