When the original Washington senators moved to Minnesota in 1960, Major League Baseball granted Washington, D.C. the right to run the 1 professional baseball team named after the senators. Air Force Major General elwood Richard Quesada bought the team.
Of Senator Xinhua Washington's 1 1 season, only 1969 won more than lost. Frank Howard is the most accomplished player in the Senate team. Ted Williams, a Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame player, was the head coach of the Senate team from 1969 to 197 1 until the team moved to Arlington, Texas from 1972.
The home court of the Senate team is in the DC Stadium next to East Congress Street and Ana Castia River (later renamed RFK Memorial Stadium, tel. 1969). The uniform of the Senate team consists of red, blue and white, and the uniform says "Senator" on the chest. Since 1962, al has planned to move 1 professional team to Dallas/Fort Worth. Charles O. Finley, the owner of the Kansas A's team, had planned to move the A's team to Dallas, but this idea was flatly rejected by other american league team owners.
1964, as the home of Dallas Fort Worth Spurs, the toll road stadium with 10000 seats was completed in Arlington. The stadium was later renamed Arlington Stadium and became the first home of Rangers.
At the same time, the Senate team was sold by elwood Richard Quesada to Bob Short, the treasurer of the Democratic National Committee, who managed to move the team out of Washington. 197 1 On September 20th, he got permission from american league to move the team to Arlington 1972. Fans in the Washington area are very angry. In front of Ted Rodgers, the public relations director of the Senate team, there was a huge slogan with a dirty word written on it, followed by the name of Bob Short. This photo appeared on the front page of the Washington newspaper the next day. Due to the hostility of the fans to the ball, the senators decided to confiscate the last 1 game of the new york Yankees at RFK Memorial Stadium after the fans rushed into the stadium and damaged the stadium facilities and turf. 197 1 After the end of the season, the toll road stadium expanded its seating capacity and was officially renamed as Arlington Stadium. Bob Short also announced that the group had changed its name to the Texas Mounted Police (just as the former Washington Senator changed his name as soon as he arrived in Minnesota). Rangers' first game was on April 5th, 1972, and they lost to los angeles angels at 1-0. The next day, the rangers beat the angel 5: 1, which was the victory of their founding team 1. 1 The home game is on April 2 1, also against angels. Ted williams retired at the end of the 1972 season. Whitey Herzog was appointed as the new head coach, but was replaced by Billy Martin in the 1973 season.
1974 season, rangers gradually formed their own style. The score of the whole season 1974 was 84 wins and 76 losses, just behind the Oakland A team (also the champion of the World Series that year). In addition, the Rangers of 1974 are also the only team in the history of major leagues whose winning percentage can exceed 0.500 after losing twice in a single season. Mike hargrove was selected as the rookie of the year in the American League, Billy Martin as the head coach of the year, Jeff Burroughs as the most valuable player in the American League, and Ferguson Jenkins won the annual comeback award after setting a record of 25 wins in a single season (still the highest number of pitchers in Rangers' history). 1975, when the record reached 44 wins and 5 losses10, Billy Martin was replaced and Frank Kuchesi became the head coach.
The evolution of Rangers in the first four years is almost their consistent pattern: the first season is weak in the middle, the second year is almost in the playoffs, the second year is weak, and then the season with weak strength in the middle begins.
From 1977 to 1979, after a fairly good season, Rangers can almost enter the playoffs in the first half of 198 1. However, the game before the strike was lost, which allowed the team of A to represent the American League West into the playoffs with a 0.5-win advantage. 198 1 year later, the winning rate of the rangers was less than 50% for five consecutive years. During this time, the Rangers made their worst (and least popular) player deal: Jim Sundberg, a catcher who won several Golden Glove Awards (and was very popular with fans), was taken to Milwaukee Brewers to play for the head coach of the Brewers, Ned Youst. Alexander Rodriguez Before the 20065438+0 season, alexander rodriguez, the star free agent shortstop of the Seattle Mariners, signed a contract worth $252 million, making it the best decade in American professional baseball history. This move is controversial, and the mass media believe that Hicks has invested most of the team's resources in one player, rather than distributing them to other players, especially for this team that obviously lacks pitching talent. Despite Rodriguez's outstanding personal performance, Rangers continue to struggle with their record. After the 2002 season, the manager grina Lang was fired and replaced by an experienced manager, Bakshaw Walter.
In the 2003 season, Rangers were at the bottom of the league for the fourth year in a row. At the end of the season, Rodriguez negotiated with the management team to trade Rodriguez, then captain of Rangers and defending MVP of American League, to the new york Yankees in exchange for Alfonso Soglia and joaquin arias. After the end of the 2009 season, Rangers traded Kevin Millwood to Baltimore Orioles and signed Colby Lewis, Richard Harden and Vladimir Greenow on the free market. At the beginning of the season in April, the batting average of Rangers was 0.500, and the record in June was excellent, with 2 1 win and 6 losses. On June 30th, Rangers traded Benji Molina; From the San Francisco Giants; On July 9th, seven players, including Justin Smoak, were traded from Seattle Mariners for Celeron Award winner Cliff Lee and right-hander Mark Lowe. . On July 29, Jorge Cantu; It was traded from Florida marlin; On July 3rd, Kloc-0, Christian guzman was traded from a Washington national. These deals and enhancements helped Rangers win the American League Western Championship on September 25th and enter the playoffs again after 1999. In 20 10, the Rangers' opponent in the American League was the Tampa Bay Ray Team. In the end, they eliminated the Ray Team with 3 wins and 2 losses, which was the first time in the team's 50-year history that they won the playoff series. 20 10 American league championship, the opponent is the new york Yankees. In the end, in six games, the Rangers won the American League championship with 4 wins and 2 losses, which was the 1 champion since the team became a soldier, and entered the world series for the first time 1. Josh Hamilton won the american league MVP. Rangers' opponent in the 20 10 World Series was the San Francisco Giants, but they only won 1 (4 losses) in the World Series, and finally lost the game, and missed the championship of 1 World Series in the team's history.