The former professional baseball player also had a history making career in the Houston Police Department, becoming the first Black supervisor in HPD.
fan, actually used to wear the uniform. He was with the Astros even before they were the Astros.
Most people now call former MLB Player JC Hartman quite the trailblazer who played professional baseball for 12 years in the 1960’s, including for the Negro League's Kansas City Monarchs. He played Shortstop for a team you may have heard of, the Houston Colt 45’s, which are now called the Houston Astros.He’s still very respected within the Astros organization. He showed me one picture of him posing at a game this season with Astros Manager Dusty Baker and I quickly recognized another uniform in the photo. It was Houston Police Chief Troy Finner. "I became the first Black supervisor in the Houston Police Department in 1974," Hartman explains.