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He recorded games off the radio to listen to over and over. He collected baseball cards. He wrote to Hall of Famers, sending index cards and self-addressed, stamped envelopes. 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They separated, and he can still make out the signatures.</p> </div> </div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>"They're somewhat salvageable," Paul Kuntz said. "They're a little dirty now."</p> </div> </div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>As their home is being repaired, the family is staying in a rental house. <br/> They were lucky, Kuntz said, because rentals were so quickly snapped up by displaced families.</p> </div> </div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>In typical Houston fashion, there have been so many people who've offered to help that it's overwhelming, he said.</p> </div> </div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>This city, Kuntz said, needed an Astros World Series.</p> </div> </div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>"This has been a good mental diversion, not only for me, but for the city," he said.</p> </div> </div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Kuntz hadn't initially planned to go to a game. Finances are tight with everything that's happened. But he knew he couldn't miss out on his Astros making history.</p> </div> </div> <div data-type="raw_html" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <div class="element element-rawhtml "> <p>He reminisced about all the good memories baseball has brought him. There was that time as a boy that he was lingering by the dugout at the Astrodome and snagged an autograph from the <runtime:topic id="ORSPT000003">Atlanta Braves</runtime:topic>’ Hank Aaron as he was closing in on Babe Ruth’s home run record. 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