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Texas Rangers Tickets Information
The Texas Rangers are a Major League Baseball team established in 1961, and based in Arlington, Texas, a Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex suburb, since 1972. Before 1972, they were based in Washington, D.C. and called the Washington Senators (not to be confused with the original Washington Senators, who moved to Minnesota in 1960 to become the Twins).
The Texas Rangers are 1 of 4 teams - along with the Oakland Athletics, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, and the Seattle Mariners - that play in the West Division of the 14-team American League. The Texas Rangers played their first game on April 15, 1972, and lost 1-0 to the home team, the California Angels (now the Los Angeles Angels).
Since 1994 the Texas Rangers have played their home games at the Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, and they conduct Spring Training at Surprise Stadium in Surprise, Arizona (the same as where the Kansas City Royals train) as part of the Cactus League. The team uniform colors are scarlet red, blue, and white.
The Rangers have no "official" in-league rivalries, but they do have an interleague rivalry called the Lone Star Shootout with fellow Texans, the Houston Astros.
The Texas Rangers are currently the oldest franchise in MLB history that has yet to compete in a World Series (and 1 of only 3 MLB teams never to have competed in one, the others being the Seattle Mariners, and the Washington Nationals). They have also never won a Wild Card Berth or an American League pennant. They have, however, won 3 Western Division titles, bringing them to the 1996, 1998, and 1999 playoffs.
Despite their fleeting relationship with championship status, the Texas Rangers still count a number of history-making stars of the game among their current and former ranks. Among the Major League Baseball legends who've spent at least part of their career on the Rangers' roster are Baseball Hall of Fame inductees Ferguson Jenkins, Gaylord Perry, Nolan Ryan, and former manager Ted Williams; American League MVPs Jeff Burroughs (1974), Ivan Rodriguez (1999), Alex Rodriguez (2003), and 2-time honoree Juan Gonzalez (1996 and 1998); and 9 American League Gold Glove winners.
In 2008, the Texas Rangers finished 2nd in the division, posting 79 wins and 83 losses. But this team's been looking increasingly sharp for the past decade, suggesting they're primed for a breakout season any time now. Get your Texas Rangers tickets now and see if this season is the one.
