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Brief History
The Texas Rangers are a professional baseball team in the Dallas-Ft.Worth metropolitan area. The Rangers are a member of the Western Division of Major League Baseball’s American League. The Rangers won the Western Division title in 1996, 1998 and 1999.
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An expansion franchise, the club was founded in Washington, D.C., in 1961 and was called the Washington Senators (not to be confused with the Washington Senators team that exited D.C. after 1960 to become the Minnesota Twins). The team then moved to Arlington in 1972 and became the “Texas Rangers” – the name originates from the famous law enforcement agency by the same name. Their first game under the new name was on April 15, 1972, a 1-0 loss to the Angels on the west coast. They won their first game the next day, 5-1.
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The Rangers plodded through the 1980′s with mostly inconsequential seasons, their best showing being a second place finish under Bobby Valentine in 1986. They did enjoy some great individual feats, including Larry Parrish hitting three grand slams in one week (July 1982), Oddibe McDowell’s cycle (July 1985), and Nolan Ryan’s 5,000th career strikeout in 1989 (against Rickey Henderson). He would toss his sixth career no-hitter the next year and his seventh the year after that.
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Pitching has always been the Achilles Heel for Texas, but by the mid-1990′s they had assembled an offensive lineup devastating enough to overcome it. With a lineup that featured Juan Gonzalez (47 HR, 144 RBI, .314 and AL MVP), Rusty Greer (18 HR, 100 RBI, .332), Ivan Rodriguez (19 HR, 86 RBI, .300) and Dean Palmer (38 HR, 107 RBI, .280), the Rangers blasted their way to their first Western Division title in 1996 under manager Johnny Oates. Although they won their first ever playoff game by beating the Yankees 6-2 at Yankee Stadium, New York won the Series. Texas would win the West again in 1998 and 1999, only to lose both Division Series to the Yankees in three game sweeps. During this four year span (1996-99), Gonzalez hit one-hundred seventy-three home runs, drove in five-hundred sixty runs and hit .329.
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Since 1994 the Rangers have played in Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, located in Arlington, Texas.
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The Rangers are one of three Major League franchises to have never played in a World Series, along with the Seattle Mariners (established in 1977) and the Washington Nationals (established in 1969 as the Montreal Expos). The Senators/Rangers franchise is the oldest team in any of the major North American professional leagues that has never won a league championship, although the Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians and San Francisco Giants won their most recent respective World Series prior to the Senators/Rangers franchise joining the league.
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