HOUSTON, TX - Phil Boudreaux, a staple of Astros baseball for over 40 years, has been voted in as the 2023 inductee into the Houston Baseball Media Wall of Honor. The Astros will recognize Boudreaux at Minute Maid Park in a pregame ceremony during the 2024 season.
Each season, a current or former Houston media member is inducted into the Houston Baseball Media Wall of Honor for significant and lasting contributions to the landscape of Houston baseball through their work in journalism or broadcasting. This year, Boudreaux was nominated and elected by the Houston media and will be inducted by the Astros in recognition of his long and impactful career in the industry.
Boudreaux works behind the scenes as the statistician for Astros telecasts. For nearly every Astros home game in his 40 seasons, Boudreaux has assisted Astros broadcasters, a group that includes the current team of Todd Kalas and Geoff Blum and former broadcasters Bill Brown, Jim Deshaies, Larry Dierker, Milo Hamilton and Gene Elston, to name a few.
Boudreaux has worked over 3,000 Astros games for the various television broadcasters over the years and also collaborated with Bill Brown and Mike Acosta on the 2021 book “Houston Astros’ Golden Era,” which traced the team’s history.
In addition to joining the telecast in 1982, Boudreaux also served as a sports producer and reporter for KTRH Radio from 1982-89 producing the award winning Sportsbeat show with Jerry Trupiano and John Breen.
Next season, the Astros will induct Boudreaux in a pregame ceremony on the field and will present him with a duplicate of the plaque that will be added to the Houston Baseball Wall of Honor in the Milo Hamilton Press Box at Minute Maid Park. His plaque will join those previous inductees Gene Elston (2008), Neil Hohlfeld (2009), Mickey Herskowitz (2010), Bill Brown (2011), Milo Hamilton (2012), Rene Cardenas (2013), Alex Treviño (2014), Harry Shattuck (2015), Mark Berman (2016), Bob Allen (2017), Karen Warren (2018), Larry Dierker (2019), Kevin Eschenfelder (2020) and Jamie Hildreth (2022).