baseball career ended, Richard became involved in unsuccessful business deals and went through two divorces, which led to him being homeless and destitute in 1994. Richard found solace in a local church and later became a Christian minister. He was inducted into the Negro League Hall of Fame in 2018 and the Astros inaugural Hall of Fame in 2019. Richard passed away in 2021 due to complications from COVID-19. Then-Astros catcher Bruce Bochy was the manager of the San Francisco Giants in 2010 when his team beat the Philadelphia Phillies 30 years later in the NL Championship Series. Bochy was behind the plate for Houston in Game 4 of the 1980 NL Championship Series versus Philadelphia when Pete Rose ran him over to score the go-ahead run in the top of the tenth inning. The Astros had to wait 25 years before they would finally make their first World Series appearance in , where they lost to the Chicago White Sox in a four game sweep. By 2013, the Astros had moved to the American League and they would not win a World Series until they beat the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2017. The Astros would win again in 2022, avenging their 1980 NL Championship Series loss by beating the Phillies in the World Series in six games. References External links 1980 NLCS at Baseball-reference National League Championship Series National League Championship Series National League Championship Series 1980s in Philadelphia National League Championship Series National League Championship Series National League Championship Series Houston Astros postseason Philadelphia Phillies postseason