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The Texas Rangers Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise was established in 1961 as the second incarnation of the Washington Senators, an expansion team awarded to Washington, D.C., after the old Washington Senators team of the American League moved to Minnesota and became the Twins. The new Senators remained in Washington through 1971 playing ...
The Texas Rangers are an American professional baseball team based in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. The Rangers compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) West Division. In 2020, the Rangers moved to the new Globe Life Field in Arlington after having played at Globe Life Park (now Choctaw Stadium ...
The origins of today's Texas Ranger Division trace back to the first days of Anglo-American settlement of what is today the State of Texas, when it was part of the Province of Coahuila y Tejas belonging to the newly independent country of Mexico. The unique characteristics that the Rangers adopted during the force's formative years and that ...
The Rangers have taken part in many of the most important events of Texas history, such as stopping the assassination of presidents William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz in El Paso, and in some of the best-known criminal cases in the history of the Old West, such as those of gunfighter John Wesley Hardin, bank robber Sam Bass, and outlaws ...
La Matanza ("The Massacre" or "The Slaughter") and the Hora de Sangre ("Hour of Blood") [1] was a period of anti-Mexican violence in Texas, including lynchings and massacres, between 1910 and 1920 in the midst of tensions between the United States and Mexico during the Mexican Revolution. [2] This violence was committed by Anglo-Texan ...
A The Rangers finished tied with the Tampa Bay Rays for the second wild card spot. Tampa Bay defeated Texas 5–2, in a one-game playoff to clinch the wild card spot. B The Rangers finished the season with an identical 90–72 record with Houston atop the American League West. Due to the Astros winning the season series 9 games to 4, the Astros ...
Location Texas flag and entrance sign. The Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum is located near Interstate Highway 35 Exit 335B in Waco, Texas. Mission. The mission of the nonprofit Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum is to: (1) Disseminate knowledge and inspire appreciation of the history, public service and ideals of the Texas Rangers, a legendary symbol of Texas and America; and (2) Serve ...
The 2021 Texas Rangers season was the 61st of the Texas Rangers franchise overall, their 50th in Arlington as the Rangers, and the second season at Globe Life Field.The Rangers would finish with a 60–102 record which was the third worst record just behind the Baltimore Orioles and Arizona Diamondbacks, also a franchise worst since 1973 and their first season since then with 100 or more losses.