An inside go through the 2017 Houston Astros championship season, focusing on the epic seven-game World Series, leading office decisions that built a winning team, as well as the resilience of the city in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.

On November 1, 2017, the Houston Astros defeated the LA Dodgers within an epic seven video game battle to become 2017 World Series champs. For the Astros, the combination of a magnificently performed series, a 101-triumph season, as well as the devastation Hurricane Harvey brought about Hurricane Time of year: The Unforgettable Story from the 2017 Houston Astros and the Resilience of a City with their city was so amazing it might give Hollywood screenwriters pause. The country’s fourth-largest city, still reeling in the wake of disaster, was smiling once again.

The Astros’ first-ever Globe Series victory is a great baseball story, but it’s also the story of a major American city–a city (and a state) that the rest of the nation doesn’t always like or understand–becoming a sentimental favorite because of its elegance and good will in response to the biggest natural catastrophe in American history.

The Astros’ wonder season is also the fascinating tale of a thoroughly modern team. Built by NASA-inspired analytics, the team’s data-driven system took the game to a more sophisticated level than the so-called Moneyball strategy. The team’s brand-new owner, Jim Crane, bought in to the program and was ready to endure humiliating seasons in the baseball wilderness with the expectation, shared by few in the beginning, that success comes to those who wait around. And he was right.

But no data-crunching could take credit for a team of likeable, refreshingly good-natured teenagers who wore ‘Houston Strong’ areas on the jerseys and meant it–guys like shortstop Carlos Correa, who kept an image in his locker of the Houston female trudging through fetid drinking water up to her knees. The Astros foundation included George Springer, a robust slugger and rangy outfielder; third-baseman Alex Bregman, whose defensive play and clutch striking were crucial in the series; and, obviously, the stubby and tenacious second baseman José Altuve, the heart and soul of the group.

Hurricane Time of year is Houston Chronicle columnist Joe Holley’s moving accounts of this extraordinary team–and the extraordinary conditions of their tournament.