The Last Hoorah for a Stadium!

The year is 1994, and a new era in North Texas Baseball is about to make its debut, when the Texas Rangers open up the NEW BALL PARK IN ARLINGTON, against the Milwaukee Brewers, April 11^th 1994.

Now, 25 years later, the last 81 home dates of the 2019 season will be a footnote in the history of this old lady, we have learned to love her, and at times speak ill of her.

Oh you can hear the complaints about the heat, and the summer saps the players—pitchers aren’t as sharp as they were in the early part of the season, base runners aren’t as quick because of the heat, all the excuses you can think of, but the truth, it’s the same in the other dugout as it is for your side of the field.

So now after this season, a new field will open up, and a new chapter in Texas Rangers Baseball will unfold, and it will be a stadium that will be domed, and cool on the inside all year round, and with new feel and new designed, the Rangers will have something to give their fans and their players to ogle about for several years. Or until they get tired of it.

Lets face it, old stadiums don’t hang around anymore. Even OLD Yankee stadium was torn down, the House that Ruth Built, they called it, Old Tiger Stadium in Detroit was raised after they built the new one just not that far from the old one. Old Cominsky Stadium in Chicago, after the new one was built across the street from the old, and so will the new ball park here, that will be behind the right field area and across from the new TEXAS LIVE area that was opened last summer.

Memories, that come rushing into our minds about this home of the Rangers, the opening day, the Perfect Game later that season from Kenny Rogers (the pitcher—not the singer) the Major League All Star Game, the first Western Division Title, and the first post season playoff game to follow, just to be in the building for that event was amazing!

Being a part of SIX of those Western Titles, and TWO American League Pennants and seeing  TWO World Series played in this building!

The Final year, will have memories as well, the term LAST TIME will be said near the end of the season, and then when it is all said and done with, they will dig up the pitching RUBBER and HOME PLATE and take them over to the new building and plant them in their proper spots, and unlike OLD Arlington Stadium, the building where the Rangers called home from 1972, to 1993, they raised that stadium, and left markers where home plate and the pitching mound were, 60 feet 6 inches apart.

This old building won’t be raised, it will be reconfigured to host football, the XFL entry of the Dallas Team, and maybe the Arlington ISD along with the resurrection of U.T. Arlington Maverick Football as well to take over the stadium for their season, it is something that is in the works.

In the meanwhile, this old lady, (25 years old is not that old) has seen her share of Ups and Downs with this team that we call the Rangers. But in the process of it all, the new ball park will be comfortable for fans and give them something to enjoy, even on nights when it is storming outside, but inside, nice and dry and cool!

Farewell old friend, and thanks for the many memories you have given us, and hopefully a new chapter will be written for the new ball field, and with that, new adventures, and new memories for that field.

It is indeed a field of dreams, if you build, THEY WILL COME! And no doubt that every fan, no matter their age, will walk into the new ball field and marvel at what they will see, and be a part of!

So like many families, it is a tradition to hand down from one generation to another, and the shared memories that will be created, and told to other generations of how they came to the park to enjoy the boys of summer!

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Its just a thought!