A Texas Rangers World Series Title 52 Seasons in the Making
Two years ago, the Texas Rangers finished in last place with 102 losses. Now, after a stunning—and pricey—turnaround, they are MLB champions.
It used to be embarrassing to be a Rangers fan. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex’s major league baseball team was the least impressive of the fifteen teams in the American League, having never made it to the World Series—or even come close—until 2010. Not only were they bad, but they were boring. As Bryan Curtis wrote in 2008: “Around the country, mentioning you were a Rangers fan typically solicited . . . nothing. But it was an unsatisfying kind of loserdom.” So when he moved away from his Dallas-Fort Worth life—with its ”sunny contentment as the world passed by”—he abandoned his baseball cap (“the superior 1972–1985 model, with the red bill and the block T”).
Two years ago, the Texas Rangers finished in last place with 102 losses. Now, after a stunning—and pricey—turnaround, they are MLB champions.
The World Series–bound Texas Rangers have embraced the much-maligned band with arms wide open. And it turns out that Creed kinda slaps.
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A blockbuster deal for Max Scherzer is intended to shore up the Rangers' pitching rotation and keep the team atop the American League West standings.
Even without the team’s $185 million ace pitcher, the Texas Rangers are off to the best start in franchise history.
After six dreadful years, the Texas Rangers are on top of the American League West—with the Houston Astros just two games behind.
Keith Meister, a team physician for the Texas Rangers, has reconstructed the elbows of many of the best players in baseball.
The Texas Rangers’ new uniform design takes great pains—including the creation of a new, mythical mascot—to make fans throughout the Metroplex feel seen.
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The most strikeouts ever. The most no-hitters ever. With those records, Nolan Ryan could afford to take it easy in retirement. But he never left the game behind.
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A former MLB front-office insider breaks down the business and baseball reasons behind the Texas Rangers' record-breaking off-season spending.
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With the blockbuster signings of Corey Seager and Marcus Semien, the woeful Texas Rangers just fast-tracked their franchise rebuild.
The AL West cellar dwellers have used another rebuilding year to audition loads of young talent. They're not winning, but they sure are fun.
Eighteen-year-old Jordan Lawlar is a projected top-five pick in Sunday’s MLB Draft, with a chance to be chosen by his hometown Texas Rangers.
It's Opening Day, and the 6'10" journeyman pitcher and former Ranger has a tall task ahead of him as general manager.
The team finished in last place in front of cardboard fans in 2020, but it’s the first in American pro sports to reopen to full capacity.
The new Arlington baseball stadium has an approach that's, well, out of left field.
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It’s part of a bigger plan to make the North Texas city a destination.
The team is abandoning 25-year-old Globe Life Park for a shiny new stadium next door.
The last-place team is actually having fun with pitcher Andrew Cashner's tendency to wear the Lone Star State on his sleeve(s).
The ballpark tradition of serving up improbable foodstuffs to Rangers fans continues.
The newly ”obsolete” park looks like it’s found a new life.
Rangers pitcher Bartolo Colon pitched seven perfect innings against the Astros Sunday night. But it's OK that he came up short.
Ham fries? Hot dog-stuffed pickles? The people behind the Rangers concessions at Globe Life Park never disappoint.
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The teams couldn’t come to an agreement about how to relocate the series after Harvey, and there's been serious backlash.
Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack, oh, and a two-foot hot dog stuffed in a tamale while you're at it.
Being a sports fan is like falling in love. Sure, it’s a form of madness, but it’s one you can’t explain.
A massive stadium bond raises the idea that Dallas could claim the Rangers as their own.
...with a $100 million taxpayer commitment.
Hungry? You might not be after you learn about the Wicked Pig.
Welcome to Dallas (er, Arlington), professional women’s basketball!
Between the ”Come and Take It” flag and banning the Dallas skyline, the most appealing thing at the ballpark these days is the cotton candy-flavored hot dog. Ew.
The AL West leaders are having a storybook season—so why isn’t anybody going to the stadium to watch it play out?
Finally, a reason to visit the park this season.
Spring is in the air, and baseball is on the diamond once again—though the final preseason games between the Rangers and the Astros took place in the musty confines of the Alamodome.
The state's top offerings, from short-story readings set to Edward Hopper's works of art in Dallas to a concert by eighties queen Molly Ringwald in Lake Jackson.
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