R a n g e r s 5 CONTENTS CHAPTERS Going West 6 Lone Star Stability 16 Change for the Better 25 Booming Bats 32 The Rangers Rebuild 37 AROUND THE HORN The Longest Night 12 The Win That Never Was 20 Extra-Inning Blowout 24 A Perfect Story 31 The Real Postseason 38 Hamilton’s Homers 43 ALL-TIME RANGERS P Charlie Hough 8 C Ivan Rodriguez 13 1B Mark Teixeira 14 2B Mark McLemore 18 3B Dean Palmer 23 SS Toby Harrah 28 LF Frank Howard 30 CF Rusty Greer 35 RF Juan Gonzalez 39 M Johnny Oates 40 Index 48
6 R a n g e r s GOING WEST here are at least 15 cities towns and villages named Arlington in the United States The largest of those is located in northeastern Texas exactly halfway between the cities of Dallas and Fort Worth But Texas’s Arlington isn’t the oldest community of that name In fact it was given its name in 1877 in honor of another older Arlington the one in Virginia where Confederate general Robert E Lee was born Back then Arlington Texas was a rough-and-tumble frontier outpost Now it is a bustling modern city that spreads across 100 square miles and is home to almost 400,000 people and 2 professional sports teams Like Lee who spent several years in Texas in the 1850s defending the frontier against raiding parties of American Indians Arlington’s baseball team has ties to the East Coast specifically Washington D C When the Washington Senators franchise moved to Minneapolis and became the Minnesota Twins in 1960 Major League Baseball awarded another franchise to Washington D C This team added to the American League AL was again named the Senators and before T
Rangers Ballpark in Arlington formerly The Ballpark in Arlington is known as a hitter-friendly park due to its relatively shallow outfield fences
