Globe Life Park in Arlington is a baseball park in Arlington, Texas, located between Dallas and Fort Worth. It is home to the Texas Rangers of Major League Baseball and Baseball Hall of Fame Rangers Texas. It was built as a substitute for the nearby Arlington Stadium and opened in April 1994 as The Ballpark in Arlington . Ameriquest bought the naming rights to the baseball stadium on May 7, 2004, and named it Ameriquest Field in Arlington . Rangers broke off their relationship with Ameriquest on March 19, 2007, and announced the park will be renamed the Rangers Ballpark in Arlington . Globe Life and Accident Insurance Company, a McKinney subsidiary, Texas-based Otormark Corporation, purchased the naming rights for the facility on February 5, 2014.
Voters in Arlington approved the sale and hotel tax extension in November 2016 to fund Globe Life Field, a new baseball stadium to be built in an area close to the current average and opened in 2020.
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In April 1989, Rangers owner Eddie Chiles, sold the team to an investment group headed by George W. Bush. The old Arlington Stadium is out of date and has no facilities that help make other baseball franchises more profitable. As a result, teams can not compete with other big city teams for good players. In an effort to fund the project through public money instead of private financing, Rangers threatened to leave Arlington. The city of Arlington spent $ 150,000 on advertising campaigns to persuade voters to approve funding through a referendum by printing brochures, placing telemarketing calls, and planning "Hands Around Arlington Day." On January 19, 1991, more than 65% of voters approved the deal, allowing the city government to cover 71% of the cost ($ 135 million from $ 191 million) to build a new baseball stadium. The deal calls for the city to raise sales tax by half a cent to go to development. Both houses of the Texas Legislature unanimously approved the general purpose of the average, and Texas Governor Ann Richards signed it all into law.
As part of the deal, the city created a separate company, Arlington Sports Facilities Development Authority (ASFDA), to manage the construction. Using the authority given to him by the city, ASFDA confiscated some plots of land around the stadium site using a leading domain for parking and future development.
Construction at the stadium, dubbed The Ballpark in Arlington, began on April 2, 1992, a short distance from the Arlington Stadium, the stadium to be replaced, and the new Ballpark in Arlington opened on 1 April 1994 in an exhibition contest between Rangers and New York Mets. The first official match was on 11 April against the Milwaukee Brewers.
The biggest crowd to watch the Rangers baseball game is on October 30, 2010, when 52,419 fans watched Game 3 of the 2010 World Series against the San Francisco Giants.
Future
On May 20, 2016, Rangers announced that it intends to move from Globe Life Park to the new Globe Life Field for the 2020 season. The new air-conditioned stadium will feature a retractable roof, which, according to many, can increase stadium revenue from those who not wanting to sit in the heat during the game during the season in the Texas summer, especially in the afternoon.. Voting for the new baseball stadium begins on November 8 (the same day as the 2016 presidential election) for residents at the Arlington city limits. On average it is ratified with 60% of favorable votes. It will open as early as the 2020 season.
The new stadium will be built south of Globe Life Park, in the current surface parking lot between Randol Mill Road and Cowboys Way. The space between the new stadium and Globe Life park will be an entertainment complex called Texas Live!, Developed by The Cordish Companies, which is expected to include a sports bar, restaurant and hotel 300 rooms to be developed in three phases. The first phase, dubbed "Rangers Republic", will be a two level venue with many restaurants and provides interactive games and authentic memorabilia; the second phase is Live! Arena, a multi-level venue providing restaurants, concert performances, and outdoor beer gardens; Arlington Backyard, the third place for anchor entertainment district calls for a large, closed venue that can hold concerts, charity functions, and community events.
Unlike Arlington Stadium, city officials will not bulldoze Globe Life Park, but will redevelop the structure as part of Texas Live! complex. Rebuilding will maintain its rough office complex and retain the facade and most concourse will be repurposed. Potential uses include repurposing concourse for condominiums and retail, as well as changing the current field into an amphitheater. It will be the second step of the team to their third baseball stadium in Arlington since they started in 1972 (their first stadium baseball is Arlington Stadium).
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Features
Design
The stadium was designed by David M. Schwarz Architectural Services of Washington, D.C. Rangers chose to build a retro-style ballpark, incorporating many of the features of the Jewelery baseball park. A roof-top terrace on the right field is reminiscent of the Tiger Stadium, while the white steel decorations surrounding the upper deck are copied from the pre-1973 Yankee Stadium. The out-of-town scoreboard (removed in 2009 and replaced with a state-of-the-art videoboard) was built into the left field wall - nodding to Fenway Park. Many of the nooks and crannies in the field fence are a reminder of Ebbets Field. The curved windows are a reminder of Comiskey Park.
However, it has several distinct features. Some traditional Texas-style stone carvings are seen throughout. A four-storey office building in the center of the field wraps it up, with a white steel-grade facade similar to a roof-faced facade.
When the stadium was built in one of Arlington Park's former parking lots, irregular outer dimensions were planned independently, instead of being forced by neighboring structures. House plates, rotting columns (replaced before 2016 season), and an early bench at the Arlington Stadium. Home Plate is inserted by Richard Greene (then Mayor of Arlington), Elzie Odom (Head of Arlington Front and Arlington Mayor's Front Committee), and George W. Bush (former owner of Rangers section, then Governor and President of Texas United States).
The 810-foot (250 m) facade along the fade is made of brick and granite Texas Sunset Red. Friezes under-reliefs depict important scenes of Texas history and baseball. Calculus seating arrangement represents a new economic model for sport: the critical mass of high dollar seats close to infield increases ticket revenue. The stadium has three basic seating levels: lower, club and upper deck. Two-level luxury suites occupy space behind sliding glass doors above and below club level.
The stadium has many unobstructed seats. In some cases, views are cut by overhangs or underhangs, and others are directly in front of rotting poles or supporting poles. Also, the top deck design left him as one of the highest in baseball. The view from the reserved tribune on the left is severely hampered.
Prior to the 2012 season, visitor bullpen is reconfigured to level with the field after the previous visitor's bullpen configuration has excessive amounts of heat during hot weather game. To allow construction, some parts of the bleach line have been removed.
Greene's Hill
Greene's Hill is a sloping piece of grass that lies behind a central field fence on the home field of the average. The Hill serves as the dough eye, providing a contrasting background behind the pitcher that allows the hitters to more easily see baseball after the release of the pitcher. Originally designed as a picnic area for fans but Rangers never started this policy. It was named after the former mayor of Arlington Richard Greene in November 1997. For several years in the 2000s, Rangers had a "T" from the Texas Rangers logo trimmed into the grass, but this is no longer done. In 2010, Rangers started a tradition where they had four girls running around on it with the flag of the giant Texas state when Rangers scored, similar to what many soccer teams do when their teams scored. Unlike most batter eyes, fans are allowed to run into the hills to catch up on the home run.
Seating capacity
The stadium has 5,704 club seats and 126 luxury suites.
Field dimensions
The field is one of the most famous pedestrian-friendly parks in baseball, due to its high temperatures, relatively short fences, and stadium design that allows strong winds in the area to spin and lift balls that would not normally make it outside. Actually, the park will give up more home runs if not for the office building in the center and the field to be 22 feet (6.7 m) below the road surface.
With a combination of garden design and natural hitters who have played for Rangers, the team has installed a high number of home runs. In 1996, Rangers hit 221 home runs. They disappeared again in 1998 (201), 1999 (230), 2001 (241), 2002 (230), 2003 (239), 2004 (227), and 2005 (260, four shorts of all-time record 264 by 1997 Seattle Mariners). Many skilled Rangers hiters take advantage of this, some even collecting some 30 home run seasons, such as Ian Kinsler, AdriÃÆ'¡n BeltrÃÆ' ©, and Josh Hamilton. The longest cage record is 491 feet to the right by Rangers RF Normar Mazara on May 25, 2016.
Dimensions
Disadvantages of open roof
Although praised as a beautiful place in her baby's years, the article on The Dallas Morning News begins to show that the roughage would be better served by having a retractable dome or roof-like Minute Maid Park, home of the Houston Astros -, because the heat is often oppressive in Texas in the summer during the baseball season, with temperatures in the field of more than 110 Â °. Many argue that great heat is responsible for attracting players, especially starting a pitcher.
It is arguable that the roof technology that can be opened is a good candidate when the stadium is built, when modern retractable ballpark such as Chase Field, Safeco Field, Minute Maid Park and Miller Park will not be open for several years. after that, although the Toronto SkyDome has been open since 1989.
The Rangers plan to open a roof ballpark withdrawn as early as 2020.
Remodeling
On December 3, 2010, Rangers announced that massive renovations to the stadium will be made and ready for the 2011 season. The renovations include:
- New Daktronics HD video display in right field (above Home Run Home) and middle field (above office building).
- The out-of-town scoreboard on the left field wall (which has been replaced before the 2009 season) has also been updated with HD technology.
- The entire audio system of the stadium is completely overhauled, with new speakers and production equipment.
- The new "Show Control System" that can display network data such as videos, scores, and sales point information anywhere in the stadium.
- An IPTV system that can display live television content on ten HDTV channels to any screen in the stadium.
Accident
1994
On 11 April 1994, the first game at the baseball stadium, Holly Minter, who posed for drunken images, fell 35 feet above the fence on the right field, snapping some bones and causing the team to raise the height of the fence.
2010
On July 6, 2010, firefighter Tyler Morris, leaning over the track to catch Nelson Cruz's foul ball, fell 30 feet to the section below him, causing a severe sprained head and ankle injury to himself and a minor injury to a fan he landed on. The game was stopped for 15 minutes while the paramedics treated it.
2011
On July 7, 2011, Shannon Stone firefighters, from Brownwood, Texas, attended the Rangers game against Oakland Athletics with his six-year-old son Cooper when outsider Josh Hamilton threw the ball at him, as he asked. After grabbing it, he flipped the fence and fell 20 feet, head-first, to the concrete behind the scoreboard out of town on the left field. He was aware and spoke like a paramedic who tended to him, but he died on the way to the hospital. The cause of death is identified as blunt object trauma. This is the fourth fall in 17 years of stadium history. A moment of silence was held for him before the next day's games, both Rangers and Athletics wearing black ribbons on their uniforms, and flags in the stadium flown half the staff to commemorate him. The Rangers Foundation set up a memorial fund for the Stone family.
A tarpaulin is placed over the opening where Stone fell. Rangers team leader Nolan Ryan said the height of the fence exceeded the building code requirement but said the team would do "whatever it takes" to ensure the safety of the fans; on July 20, 2011, Rangers announced that it would raise all the fences on the front of the seat to 42 inches. On August 10, 2011, the team announced it would set up a statue that memorizes the Stone. Cooper helped uncover the statue on April 5, 2012. It depicts him and his father wearing a baseball cap. They held hands and looked at each other as though they were talking. The writing on the statue reads "In the memory of Shannon Stone and is dedicated to all fans who love the game".
On September 30, 2011, Cooper threw out his first show in honor of his father before Game 1 ALDS 2011 against Tampa Bay Rays.
Important event
MLB
- That's where Kenny Rogers launched his perfect game on July 28, 1994 against the California Angels.
- It was the site of the 1995 MLB All-Star Game.
- It hosted the first regular season interleague match on June 12, 1997, when Rangers played the San Francisco Giants.
- The first postseason game won by Rangers will be in Game 2 of ALCS 2010 with a score of 7-2 above the Yankees, on October 16, 2010.
- On October 22, 2010, Rangers clinched their first US League title there after a 6-1 win over the New York Yankees in Game 6 of the ALCS, earning third in ninth from former Ranger Alex Rodriguez.
- It hosts Game 3, 4 and 5 of the 2010 World Series, the San Francisco Giants winning the last two games to win the series in five games.
- It hosts Game 3, 4, and 5 of the 2011 World Series, with Rangers winning 2 of 3 home games, but lost Game 6 and 7 with St. Louis Cardinals at St. Louis. This is part of three sports championships taking place at the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex in the same year, along with Super Bowl XLV, and NBA Final 2011.
Baseball College
It hosted 2002 and 2004 Big 12 Baseball Tournament. Since 2013 UT UT UT baseball team has held one game each year in the stadium every March.
In Movies and TV
The scene from Disney The Rookie was shot here.
More events
This is the venue for the Dallas/Fort Worth MDA Muscle Walk event which takes place on September 20, 2014. It was previously held at AT & amp; T Stadium (formerly Cowboys Stadium) from 2010 to 2013.
See also
- Texas Rangers Hall of Fame
References
External links
- Stadium site at texasrangers.com
- Globe Life Park on Arlington Seating Chart
- Visit Ballpark Digest to Globe Life Park in Arlington
- Ballparks.com Globe Life Park at Arlington Page
- Globe Life Park in Arlington's Official history on the Rangers website
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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