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- The Ballpark in Arlington served as the Texas Rangers' home for less than 3 decades, and it's all due to awkward timing.
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I really loved The Ballpark in Arlington but yeah... you could literally fry your backside trying to sit in the upper deck, even for early evening games. And day games? Forget about it. I remember going to a game one August where we couldn't even sit in our seats until the fifth inning.
Yeah when I was at a game when I was like 3, my mom told me I was so hot I was starting to act weird
God forbid the seats in the stands were warm. Yeesh bunch of pansies, what do ppl like that even do during the summer lol. Imagine the people that build the stadium.
What is staying is why would they play games in the daytime to begin with? You know they could have played only night games. Hell, most hockey and basketball games are played at night.
It was beautiful and awful.
My first game at the new stadium It was weird seeing people wearing jeans and button ups to a baseball game... It just seemed wrong.
Midland, Texas is not nearby Arlington, Texas
It’s only 300 miles away…..lol
I was about to comment the same thing! Lol.
@@Damianoutlaw Yeah, totally "nearby". Lol.
Maybe if you don’t get out of the city often…
it's "Texas" close..lol
My family and I are Life long Rangers fan from the area. The new stadium was a welcome change but also a bitter pill. EVERYONE loved the old ballpark. How could you not ? It was just so beautiful, iconic, classic. But it was too damn hot. We all knew we would have to say goodbye to it but no one wanted to.
I have been to about 3 games at the new stadium (in the terrible times of 2021 and 2022, brutally bad teams) and I absolutely adore it and defend it to anyone who says its not a good venue. It is not perfect, in no way. Nothing can be.
But the fact the my 60+ year old parents got to see the Rangers play in person for the first time since i was a kid without fearing the heat was a true blessing that i hold very dear, and i know there are many other people with similar stories. On the other end of the spectrum, i saw a bunch of kids play and run around in the padded play area in the upper concourse where they and there parents now dont have to worry about getting sunburnt, dehydrated, or straight up sick from the heat,. It was a heartwarming thing to see.
The food prices aren't to terrible either, especially when Jerry World's $7 water is in eyeshot. The views are great too. You have a great look at the field and both jumbotrons from any seat.
Us Rangers fans all loved the old ballpark. But we all knew a long time ago it wasn't gunna be around forever. It was unsustainable. While some heart and character was lost in transition inside, the benefits of getting people out of the oppressive sun is and will be worth the loss.
A shiny new trophy sure does make help a lot to make you feel at home too ;)
Let's go Rangers! 2023 World Series Champions!
Were your parents happy when they won? Lol, it's been a longgggggg time😂
i will stop you at the seats part! I live in dallas & was at almost 20+ games last year so it was crazy to see the WS win. but my only complaint is there are so many blind spots if you dont sit in their luxury sections…. with is pretty much the whole bottom row. in the outfield there are so many blind spots… i had to wait for the crowd reaction bc i didn’t see if it was an out/ or over the fence. Multiple HRs couldn’t see either bc of the blind spots.
@@ReelGrande The Blind spots are at ALL MLB parks. I have attended games at all three parks the Rangers have used. Loved "The Ball Park in Arlington" but it could be super hot. Really like the new stadium and control temps.
As happy as I am that we can go to games in comfort, I just can’t help but feel like the Rangers lost a massive part of their soul in the transition.
I loved the beauty of The Ballpark at Arlington, but sans a nuclear winter, there is no way that players can suffer in that sweltering heat and go all the way. It’s too much for too long. I always believed if you had put some of Cocaine Ron’s teams in a dome, they would’ve won the WS. It was fun to watch them last year and hopefully they can repeat for the Arlington faithful.
Another factor that I believe was considered in making The Ballpark in Arlington an open-air park: In the early 90s, artificial turf was still pretty crappy for simulating natural turf. Balls would bounce like flubber on artificial turf, and it also caused considerable wear and tear on the players' bodies. So making the stadium open-air also made it easier to go with natural turf.
Great point!
Plus, it was at least a full decade before anyone figured out how to pull off natural grass in a dome/retractable roof stadium.
Any Rangers fan would be lying if they told you they rather be watching a 3 hour baseball game in 100 degree weather at the old ballpark rather than watch a game inside globe life field.
I totally agree, but I really did like that old ballpark. It was just a beautiful ballpark and the vibe was perfect. It was awesome in the spring.
Haven’t made it to the new field yet, but I wish they’d of just upgraded the ballpark to have a dome. Aesthetically it’s so much better.
@@brasshouse9822 I loved the old ballpark too, 7 years ago took my godmother to a rangers game at the old ballpark in mid April about the start of the season she loved the park as she is a big baseball fan and wants to visit every stadium in mlb in her lifetime according to her everything was great about the stadium but the weather even though that game was played in mid 70s degree weather she said she would not attend if the temperature was above 85 degrees and even then we went we sat in the shade and were constantly hydrating. Last season I took her to globe life field she wasn't impressed by the stadium but said she even though the ballpark was beautiful she would rather watch the game at globe life.
I love that ballpark and miss the outside look but yeah the inside is amazing
The argument isn't about A/C or no A/C.
Here is my thing. They said it would cost about the same to build a new ball park of add a roof to the old ball park. SO they went with new one...wrong decision.
That being said, if they would have built a better looking new park, there wouldn't be AS many haters.
My biggest problem is the new park is ugly as hell.
Great job on the video! I'm a Red Sox fan, having grown up 8 miles from Fenway Park. But I moved to the DFW area in 1996 for work, and decided to "root for the Rangers" unless they were playing my hometown Red Sox. I've attended over 200 games at the Ballpark in Arlington and was a partial season ticket holder in 2011. What a great place to see a game and the Rangers weren't bad either. But....in 2018? I went to the "Red Sox" series when they were in town. There was a Sunday afternoon game in the series and we had tickets in the Club level, just above Home Plate. But the seats could NOT be sat in. I even brought a white t-shirt to sit on, and I couldn't do it, neither could my sister, who had flown down from Boston. So I had smartly also purchased 2 "All you can eat" seats in the right field home run porch. Meaning we had air conditioned seats as well, and we did that, plus all the crappy ballpark food we wanted. haha.
I have yet to attend a game at Globe Life Park, but that's due to medical issues I'm still working on. Maybe this year or next I'll be able to see a game? I know I won't have to worry about seats over 175 F....which they used to be at the old park. When the Rangers won in 2023? Of course I was rooting for them....since the Red Sox now seem to suck annually since 2019.
Hopefully you’re doing better with your health man
Never understood why they didn't build a dome years ago. The Texas' summers wore down pitchers in the summer.
He literally explains why in the video.
@@JonesteinTX "Never", as in past tense. As in, before they watched the video.
It’s obvious now, but it was simply too much of a risk at the time. Rangers Stadium would have been the first purpose-built baseball stadium with a retractable roof (the Skydome was built as a multi-use facility) and would have 2-3x’d the cost.
@@JonesteinTX I think the statement is more nuanced. They could have build a dome which was known tech when the ball park was built. The retractable roof was a major point of the video. The Rangers open the roof so infrequently that they could have saved all that money and just domed it and no one would know the difference from a simpler dome.
@terrybell3495 Yes, people knew how to design domes. They designed the Kingdome, the Astrodome, Olympic Stadium in Montreal (which was supposed to be a cable-stayed retractable roof but the mechanism didn't work outside of five years), and the Metrodome.
They weren't popular by the early 90s. And anything besides circular donut stadiums in the 90s would've cost way more than $130 million.
The Ballpark in Arlington looks far better than the new stadium. It is a beautiful stadium. The heat in Texas with DFW now having 110 degree days as the norm, it makes sense to have an indoor stadium.
Even as a former food/water hawker at the Ballpark in Arlington, I will forever prefer the old home to the new one. That's the stadium I grew up with. It was everything baseball was to me as a little kid. And nothing, I mean nothing, beat the view you got when you walked through the tunnels from the concourses to the seats, and you got to see the field open up in front of your eyes like the field of dreams. It was absolutely majestic. The only thing that it lacked was proper air conditioning, and I hate that I'm stuck here saying that.
Now, yeah, the new stadium has a roof and A/C, and yeah that likely won us a ring, but I can't get over just how corporate and soulless it looks both inside and out. Not just as a Rangers fan, but as a fan of baseball, it just feels empty, and I hate saying that, because I want to like it. I want this new stadium to feel like home. But heat or no heat, there's nothing that will ever replace a day out at the Ballpark.
The Ballpark at Arlington is still one of the most beautiful stadium’s in the country.
This is the exact same view that I have. Thanks for wording it so well. I also think the heat led to cheap tickets during the summer when I was growing up, helping spread the love of baseball to kids all over the dfw area.
spot-on comment... "corporate and soulless". When I first saw the design and later the finished product, my thought was "industrial warehouse". The word "fugly" also came to mind.
You hit the nail on the head, there was nothing like the feeling you got in the old ballpark as you entered the park from the concourse. Having said that, we rarely went to afternoon games and even many night games were close to unbearable the first few innings. I will still take that feeling over the new "ballpark".
You don't like it because you refuse to allow yourself to like it. You're hanging on to nostalgia and refuses to evolve as a person.
@@preston8258 The Ballpark was already "corporate and soulless" if you had ever been to Arlington Stadium before it.
Was in Dallas on business in August of 2001. A group of us went to the Yankees-Rangers game at The Ballpark. It was still about 95 degrees at game time (7:00). The Rangers were clobbering the Yankees early in the game. It was so hot that we were consuming beer as if prohibition were about to come back. By the time the game ended the Yankees were finished, and so were most of us!! Not sure how we ever drove back to the hotel in Dallas.
As an Arlington native I remember the ballpark at Arlington so vividly and I loved it. I remember when they built AT&T stadium and how crazy that was to see. When they built the new rangers stadium I wasn’t as big of a fan of it, the outside like you said reminded me of a BBQ grill. However, I graduated high school in 2020 and the rangers graciously allowed us to use the stadium for our ceremony due to Covid. We were the first event held there, we were there before the players even played on the field. The inside was so nice that I was genuinely taken aback and it felt amazing all through the entire stadium. It really is an amazing thing for us to have.
Behind home plate to the netting behind the catcher it is 42 feet, 42 feet for Jackie Robison. I do miss the the old park made so many memories, but the new stadium is so nice. It feels like a mall, but I don’t care. I am not dying of heat and my grandma can actually stay for awhile. Also they have great handicap and special needs accommodations at the new ball park which is great since my cousin is in a wheelchair. My only gripe about the staduim is how you walk on the second floor when you enter the staduim and you’re not on the first floor.
Enter behind home plate or by Texas Live and you'll be on the first floor. Or what I call the first floor. Unless you consider the exclusive club section right on field level "the first floor.:
Feels like a mall... that's exactly how I described AT&T Stadium when it opened in 2009. Like going to a mall and a football game broke out. Same feel with the antiseptic Globe Life.
I knew they made a mistake with the outdoor ballpark before it was finished. Someone argued with me about how hard it would be to air condition a huge facility like that in Texas. My reply: ever heard of the Astrodome in Houston? It was built in 1966.
The issue would probably have been the playing surface. If you had a dome or a retractable roof, you'd probably also have artificial turf. Only the SkyDome was a retractable roof stadium then.
@@AEMoreira81 fun fact ASTRO turf is called that because of..............
While I do acknowledge that the move to Globe Life Field probably led to the free agents that helped the Rangers to the World Series, I do miss going to games at the Ballpark. I loved that place, even when I was at the game where it was 107 degrees at first pitch.
Same man, there was nothing better than the smells and walking up the tunnel to your seats and the stadium slowly starts to show itself
Late April, 30 minute rain delay, wide open night sky, beer in one hand, hot dog in the other, and a date sitting next to you. Find me a better setting in America I dare ya!
Hear! Hear!
If only they would have added a roof to THE Ball Park!
Footnote, the Rangers are still legally called "The Washington Senators DBA Texas Rangers." The Rangers never gave up the rights to the name Senators which is why the team in DC is called the Nationals.
Source reference?
@@Caderic From Wikipedia: "Even after the move, the Rangers retained the rights to the Senators name." They own it, just like the Titans still own "Houston Oilers." It is done to sell expensive throwback jerseys.
@@Caderic Texas Rangers Official Website
Got my St Louis Browns t shirt on sale at Cooperstown for $1, I guess this prevents that.
Sick redskins could of used this
I owe the Ballpark at Arlington my life, literally. My parents met there on chance and the rest is history.
To me their history is just heartfelt. The struggles, the hope, the heartbreaks. All of it.
The way they honor tradition is 2nd to none in my opinion. One thing the Rangers have always had is great team dynamics. No matter if they’re a losing team, a 500 team, or a World Series winning team, they’ve always had chemistry.
I always get teary-eyed when I see replays of our 2010-11 losses. But our recent win just makes it so much sweeter. Beltre, Andrus, Nolan,Napoli, Arod, Seiger, Garcia, Pudge, Saltalamacchia Molina,Hamilton (for better or worse 😂) I can go on… they’re what make this team. So many memories.
I LOVE the rangers. ❤
Ps, Arlington IS a baseball town. Suck on that Hamilton!
I went to Arlington stadium for a game as a kid and got sick from the heat and almost ended up at the hospital. It was miserable.
Day games were absolutely miserable at the Ballpark, I never sat through an entire day game there especially when I had seats in left field.
But man what a gem and a beautiful park. I loved the feel of the game when I visited.
The new stadium is just as awesome in its own way and is perfect as a symbol of a new era in Rangers baseball.
You missed a key component why the Rangers got new a stadium that had absolutely nothing to do with air conditioning.
The Ballpark in Arlington had a 30 year lease with the city of Arlington starting in 1994 and was set to expire in 2024. Had the city not either negotiated a new lease or built a new stadium, the Rangers would have been free to leave. Given its location away from where most of the wealthy companies and residents are (as well as lack of transit), it would have surprised nobody if they opted for downtown Dallas or one of the many prosperous suburbs like Plano or Frisco. Anyone familiar with Arlington knows it doesn’t top any desireable destination lists. The Rangers, Jerry World and Six Flags are literally the only reasons anyone visits Arlington. So knowing that losing the Rangers would assuredly mean disaster for the local economy, Arlington cut a deal with the Rangers to foot half of the construction costs (from the continued Jerry World tax) to keep them in Arlington. Ultimately, the Rangers took the deal and got their new stadium for basically half price.
As for the old stadium, it would have cost approximately $80M to have constructed it with a roof. The stadium cost was already in the neighborhood of $190M, so nearly paying an additional 50% wasn’t thought to be in the best of the stakeholders- a gamble they ultimately lost.
There were many studies done around 2015 to determine if the Ballpark could support a retractable roof, but it was not structurally capable. It also would have taken a year to build at a cost near or exceeding a brand new stadium.
You are correct… no new stadium and it was off to Frisco!!
"It also would have taken a year to build at a cost near or exceeding a brand new stadium." Wrong decision in my opinion.
@@creaturafauna Really, Frisco. I hadn't heard that. Interesting.
Where would the Rough Ridders go?
@@Caderic Structural feasibility aside, where then would the Rangers have played an entire season? Unlike the Oakland dumpster fire, Texas at least has a fan base who shows up to games.
@@Wells306 "...where then would the Rangers have played an entire season?" Um, good point. I don't know. But apparently, that was thought of to some degree, seeing how they crunched the numbers.
LOL I still think it was the wrong choice. But that's just my nostalgia talking.
I remember George Brett saying years ago that the Rangers would never win a world series because no matter how good their teams were, the heat of playing outside in Texas would always wear them down until they collapsed by season's end. He said that when they still played in the old Arlington Stadium, which was more open to breezes and therefore much cooler than the Ballpark. I think Brett was probably right.
I never went to the old Arlington stadium but I remember on the televised games they'd get these clouds of moths in the summer. 😝🤢
For a long time, Texas couldn't attract good free agent pitching because of that.
Last August I invited my parents to a Rangers game and my father immediately said no.
When I asked him why he didn’t want to go he replied that it was too hot.
I then told him that the Rangers now played inside and
he goes: "That’s right! I forgot…..sure were in"
The heat at rangers games used to be unbearable.
I'm a lifelong Ranger fan and was a resident of Arlington when the proposition for a new ballpark was on the voting ballot. I voted against it. I felt like it was a waste of taxpayer money, and I adored the Ballpark despite its many imperfections. Ironically I think the new ballpark may be the biggest contributor to the team's first championship which I savor to this moment. Simply put the team needed better players, and without GLF Corey Seager and Marcus Semien probably don't sign here. Both were absolutely crucial to the title run. So I'm conflicted. The new ballpark is boring but it's air conditioned. It was expensive to go out there before a championship, and now it's even more so. One of the beauties of the old park was being able to sit in the upper deck for $30, parking for $10, and buying a few $5 concessions. $60 on a random Sunday in May was a pretty fun thing to do on a whim. It's just different now. Last year was the first time in about 30 years that I didn't see a Ranger game in person. This year I'll probably go to a couple of games, but that has more to do with personal reasons than it does fandom. The process of getting this stadium bordered on extortion from team ownership and mayor Jeff Williams, but I say that as a flag flies.
Don't forget, Jon Daniels was gone by that point too. If they would have got rid of him instead of letting him run-off Nolan Ryan, the team probably would have done more in the 2010's.
As for your second part, " The new ballpark is boring but it's air conditioned.", etc.
I agree. The A/C is so nice. But the new park has no real character. It is ugly. It is difficult to get around. It cost an arm and a leg to go, and now it's going to be even more expensive since winning the WS.
@@Caderic Oh stop it. Nolan had very little to do with the Rangers 2010s success, that was mostly JD. Grow up.
I got to do a fiber optic and ethernet + CCTV overhaul at Globe Life in 2016. Got to go all over the stadium and even into locker rooms, press rooms, all kinds of support offices, and even the dugout. I even got permission to get to walk out from the main service tunnel onto the warning track, with a warning I'd be fired if my foot touched a single blade of grass lol. As someone who hung their helmet up for the last time in High School it was a really cool experience and awesome to get to stand inside a MLB dugout and out onto the warning track.
Most of the grounds crew guys were dudes that played college/minor league ball and never got called up to the show but they'd work on the field, then hit and catch on it with each other before putting the finial finishes on the field a couple hours before the first batting practice started. It was cool to see those dudes who may not have achieved their dreams to still be able to play on a MLB field.
3rd base/ outfield side was brutal. Made that mistake once. Only once.
the Ballpark in Arlington was so hot you had to take a shower and come into the stadium still wet in order to survive just 6 innings
As a young kid, I remember going to a dozen or so games in the old Arlington Stadium. Family nights (and a horrible record) made tickets cheap, promotion nights were just as plentiful, and there has never been a crowd in those steel bleachers in the outfield as loud as it got on the annual Bat Night. Several thousand kids slamming their new bats in rhythm on the steel floors will do that. I still have two Ranger bats I used in little league - a blue one and a red one. I got my glove autographed by AL Rookie of theYear and Ranger's first baseman '74, Mike Hargrove. When the Rangers won the World Series, I got my 90 year old Mom a championship t-shirt - she earned it.
Only thing I wish had been different about the new stadium is how it appears outside, it just looks like an ugly aircraft hanger. The old park was really something to look at and you could put it on a coin it was so iconic. At least the inside is really nice and the addition of the facilities next door for watching and eating is a great addition.
To me it looks like a coffin
I've lived through all three Rangers home fields - old Arlington Stadium was my childhood, I attended the first regular season game at the Ballpark shortly before graduating high school, and now Globe Life Field will be my home park for my middle age and sunset years.
I recall that when GLF was put to a vote, there was very strong sentiment against tearing down the Ballpark because it was still relatively new, so Arlington had to promise to preserve the Ballpark to get the new stadium vote passed. Personally, I don't think it makes sense for the Ballpark to continue to exist as a stadium since there are two other state-of-the-art stadiums within walking distance - I'd be in favor of an adaptive reuse, where the exterior, the main concourses and the field are preserved, but the stadium seating is replaced for multi-use like apartments, condos, offices, etc., similar to what was done with old Arsenal Stadium in England.
One possibility I wish they had considered was to build AT&T Stadium with the ability to convert for baseball (i.e., no big screen over the field and one side of the stands retractable) - that way, the Rangers could have split their schedule between the two venues, playing home games in the air conditioning at AT&T in July and August, and then the Ballpark could have continued to host the Rangers the rest of the season for many years to come. I also think that instead of completely tearing down old Arlington Stadium, they could have reduced it to its initial minor-league configuration and used that as the basis for a concert amphitheater.
My dad had season tickets and I hated going to the games at the old field in it's last season. My dad was a Rangers fan all his life and all he wanted was to see the Ranger win a world series. He past away in 2022 a year before they won. I am sure he had a front row seat all season long in heaven.
I went to the last Rangers game played at Globe Life Park. I loved that stadium. I grew up going to the stadium and watching the team play. Seeing them go to the world series in 2010 and 2011. The stadium is just iconic to me. It reminds me of Camden Yards.
I understand why they had to leave glp. I just wish there was a way that the Rangers could still use both stadiums. On special days/ good weather days/ all post-season games could be played at glp. Then, if it's hot or rainy or any number of things, it can be played at the indoor glf.
I just miss watching them play in glp. Glf doesn't have the charecter or feel of glp. I do like when glf has the roof open it's nice. Otherwise, i would rather take a parasol and sit in the heat.
I can't deny the accessibility of the new stadium. Having it so people that can't stand heat for long periods can now go to the games in very good for the sport. So it gets points on that.
Overall glf is a good stadium, just not my personal taste.
Please show wome respect, and call it by it's proper name, The Ball Park in Arlington. LOL Just kidding, but no seriously.
Grew up going to the old stadium. Went to a game the other day and just kept staring at the old stadium. Still looks incredible. So many memories
I live in Ft. Worth, and I remember back when it was being built, I thought it was a bad idea. It's a pretty ballpark, but it's just too damn hot in the summer for an open-air stadium.
Lifelong Rangers fan, too. I loved the Ballpark in Arlington but good god it was freaking miserable for an evening game in the months of July - mid September. If you're sitting in left field the sun is baking you until about the 6th inning and on day games the attendance was just plain horrendous. My biggest gripe about the new park is that I really think they had the opportunity to design something that embodied the Southwest part of the country but they went with something architecturally sterile. The Texas Live! entertainment venue just next door is unmatched by anywhere else in MLB.
One thing I wish they would’ve incorporated into the new ballpark was Greene’s hill. Such a cool, beautiful, and unique feature replaced by a green wall with a window for what?!
I know we used to fry in those seats BUT i LOVEDDDD that damn stadium. I’ll never forget the feeling of seeing the field as i walked out the tunnel. I miss seeing fans going for home runs in centerfield
My wife and I sat behind home base in Sept. 2019 just to where a shadow from the upper deck cast across our legs. She had a tan line that lasted 2 years on her legs from that 1 game! Glad we have a roof now.
I'm at least glad they found a good way to reuse Arlington Ballpark. None of the teams playing there expect to draw like the Rangers, but at least it provides a high level experience to two legit teams (and NTXSC, who lost any shred of legitimacy of being a real team once MLSNP arrived). Too bad the stadium dimensions are so wonky cause of baseball. It makes me wonder what sort of utopia we'd have if we as a society could fit football and baseball fields in better so multipurpose stadia didn't have to be concrete donuts.
Oh, and to be clear, this was a great video! It does make me want a video from you about the migration of stadia from cities to suburbs in the late 20th century and the mild comeback downtown stadia have made since then. I always found it interesting how soccer stadia in the UK have been so resistant to that trend to where parks like the Amex outside of Brighton are downright notorious for being on the outskirts of the places for which their teams are named.
That is interesting re: location of stadiums. Will look into that
@@Maapify For the record I don't want you to have to take a super thorough look at all of the factors that caused it, since it's not reasonable to expect you to learn and regurgitate all about the interstate highway system, white flight, the mortgage interest tax deduction, school integration, and all of those infinitely complex public policy issues. But if you can find an easier way to sum up the factors that started and ended the boom of suburban stadia migrations I do think that topic would be perfect for your channel. I'm not an expert on them either but I'm sure I could rustle up some of what I read for my degree if you'd want any entry level materials
The Arlington Renegades UFL team drew really really good crowds to their games.
It also became the corporate headquarters of Six Flags. However, with the Cedar Fair acquisition, Six Flags will leave the Metroplex for Charlotte, NC.
Gotta love those "Guzzle Dens" right behind home plate in the new stadium!
Good explanation. I was Dallas native but moved out of state to start career at start of '90s. I had forgotten what little if any info I had on design process b/c without your video specifics, it sounds crazy to most they didn't add retractable roof.
I was Dallas kid of mid '70s/early '80s when Rangers almost always played on Sunday night in summer due to heat, depriving visiting teams (and themselves if playing Mon on road) of a "getaway day" game to give max travel flexibility to fly out of DFW Sunday at reasonable hours.
Also, mid-70s in futile attempt to fight heat, Rangers started summer games at 8:05 PM CT or on rare occasions 8:35 PM. They could get away with it then with TV games not yet on a daily basis and games being far quicker (before pitch clock). It was still "futile" attempt b/c in summer it's common in DFW for it to still be 94 to 98 degrees at 11 PM.
Great video, outside of the Midland reference 😂😂😂, seriously A+!
The BPIA was a beautiful field that was designed to celebrate the history of architecture in baseball. Unfortunately, this also meant that it sacrificed identity for nostalgia. I miss them playing in this stadium, but I'll admit that the scale and comfort of the new park really feels like it elevates the club.
This was amazing! Please make a video on the SkyDome and the Toronto Blue Jays even just briefly touching on the history of baseball in Canada.
Rangers fans can still enjoy a beautiful ballpark outside as Jesus and Nolan Ryan intended with the Rangers AA team in Frisco Texas
The Texas Rangers have been playing Sunday night ball for decades since the early 1970s. Maybe a few Sunday afternoon games in April, but by May those ceased. The former Arlington Stadium and the Ballpark in Arlington never had much of a problem playing during the evenings even on the hottest days of the year as the temperature drops significantly after the sun sets. However when the players association demanded Sunday afternoon games so they can get to sleep before midnight on that travel day, many fans suffered heat stroke... The players could care less about the fans, hitting that bed before midnight is more important to them with their million dollar salaries...
Thanks for this Bro! I was wondering about that stadium actually. Keep up the god work.
New stadium is awesome but it’s hard to get the nostalgia from it like the old ballpark.
The new park is just as beautiful as the old one, imo, just in a different way! Those brick pillars in the concourse beyond outfield are my favorite feature!
The Ballpark in Arlington is as close to hell as I ever hope to get.
As a long time Rangers fan, I don’t miss the old ballpark at all. Your shirt would stick to the back of the plastic seats in that 100+ degree heat. I’ll take Globe Life Field every day of the week
I worked on the pipes in the ballpark in Arlington and that alone was a good enough reason to make a new stadium.
How could you possibly not know? How do you build a park and then suddenly realize it’s hot in Texas?
Simple average temperature at game time spiked around 15° in the 20 so years that the stadium was open
@sonofPoseidon136_ So, it average from 90° to 105° which is still damn hot
@@sonofPoseidon136_ What evidence do you have for this? As someone who grew up in Texas at this time, this did not happen. It peaked in 96 and went down over the next 6-7 years.
Well… the team was owned by the son of a Bush. 🤠
@@jalander8817I'm a Republican, but cannot dispute this. Bush Sr and Jr were both morons who were both born on 3rd base and thought they hit triples.
Lived in East Texas all 43 years of my life. You never get used to the heat.
I am from north of Longview. I live all 43 years of my life (minus 2 1/2 in Atlanta GA) in East Texas, and I am still not used to the heat, either.
Just found your channel and subbed. Well done video on the subject.
I would add the White Sox stadium in as one which was built a little too early before the trend was set.
Globe Life Field is where baseball happens.
Globe Life Park was a ballpark.
The new covered stadium is terribly designed. There are only two routes to get to any of the upper levels above ground floor. You literally have to walk halfway around the ballpark to get to any next level escalator. Up one level on one of two escalators then walk halfway around the park for another escalator if you need to go up another level. Insane!
I agree. The thing is ugly, and hard to get around. I think other than the A/C, the new park sucks!
I would sweat through my shirt just WATCHIN Tejas home games on TV! Can’t *imagine* playing in that kiln! 😖😮💨😮💨
Live here and paid for it all these years, only to have the name taken away. Biggest issue is local taxes went up for it and never went back down when it was paid for.
Miss the ballpark but holy hell I don’t miss that 105+ degree weather in the summer. If you bought a beer and you didn’t chug it goodbye cold beer lol
I was about 3 when the ballpark in Arlington opened and I remember my dad carrying me as we walked in the gate and I remembered being scared because the two holes in green brick with the arch below it looked like a face and we were walking into into the mouth (the arch). Later in life before going to basic training right after high school graduation my friends and I would take trips to Arlington from the Texas panhandle to watch the rangers. Probably some of the best memories of my life.
i grew up in garland, suburb of dallas. i went to the ballpark many times and i loved it. but i did suffer heat exhaustion at one game. and we lost. btw, midland is not "nearby" (5 hour drive)
"midland is not 'near by'", Yeah, I laughed at that!
I discovered RUGBY a few months ago that's played at Choctaw Stadium. Fantastic fun game to watch. I'm really enjoying learning the game. The Dallas Jackals is the MLR (major league rugby) team that plays there.
Playing baseball video games, the BPA was the only place I felt hot playing just knowing a sunny day in July was 100+
Great video! I went to Rangers game outdoors years ago. It was over 100 degrees at night! Why did you not mention the Houston Astros? They were 1st indoor team and located in same state. It seems odd Houston figured out the need to play indoors very early on in the early 1960s but it took nearly 50 years for the Rangers to go inside. The heat was often the blame for players being worn down by season's end and affecting the performance of the team.
In 1999, the Astros played at Enron Field in Houston. So Toronto was not the only ballpark with a retractable roof between 1989 and 2004.
ASTRODOME. Anyone else notice that this guy failed to mention that texas had an air conditioned sports venue 30 years before the muffins built the ballpark in Arlington.
Loved the old ballpark...in the spring. Once summer hits, it was unbearable. Go rangers!
My wife and I drove by the new field often while it was under construction. We called it the big barn. We loved the old stadium.
One awesome thing about this though is that local high school teams get to play in the old stadium. A few years ago my high school's football team got to play a game in there and we got to watch. It's sad that they had to leave the old stadium, but an unexpectedly great thing for the community.
Having been working with the Ranged in house production some 2010, it's a shame to see the old ballpark wither.
me and my dad used to call the old stadium "the blast furnace". i still kinda miss it though :(
I recently moved to the Dallas area in the last 3 years and have been to 3 games so far at the new Globe Life Field. It's a nice facility to be sure, but depending on where you park, you will walk by the old ballpark to get to the new one, and it still looks so good - in terms of design, better than the new ballpark IMHO. I always feel bad that it isn't still in use for baseball as it just looks so stunning and classic. I wish they could've figured out a way to add a roof and A/C to that park rather than building a whole new one.
Went to many games at both "old" stadiums and the new stadium definitely played a roll in endurance through a long hot season.
I’ve seen ballgames at a lot of different places. Never before have I felt like I was sitting under a magnifying glass like at old Arlington Stadium. It was ridiculously hot and you only survived if you showed up late or left early. It was torture to watch a game there. It 100% needed to go.
I remember back in the 1980'd in the old Arlington Stadium in July and August Sunday 1:05 starts the temperature being 100 degrees and by 3:00 being 106 degrees. I was a young adult back then and could take the heat back then. I am 63 years old now and can't imagine how I did it back then. Go Rangers !!
Yes Arlington Ballpark was miserable during the summers but every Friday we would get a free firework show. It’s something I truly miss.
One of my favorite ballparks to have attended. Thankful I got to attend games in the late 90's as a kid. Got to see Rangers greats, such as Juan Gonzalez and Pudge Rodriguez. Caught a game when the Mariners were in town, when Junior Griffey and A-Rod and Edgar Martinez were on the team.
I was literally making this exact point the last time I was there. Nobody wanted to play July baseball in Arlington, TX.
I still remember the announcement that the ballpark in Arlington was being built. Everyone thought it was so stupid to build a new ballpark without a roof. Our expectations were that we would have something like that Astrodome in Arlington. What was the point and even building a new ballpark if it was not going to be covered and air-conditioned?
It's not exactly a waste because they found some effective uses for the Ballpark in Arlington. Nevertheless, they should have built a retractable roof stadium in the 1990s.
I have never been a ballpark more sterile than Globe Life. Might as well be in a mall playing baseball. Though I understand you need a dome in Dallas especially during the summer this just doesn’t have any feel for a Major League Baseball stadium. I guess I’m too stuck in the 70’s and 80’s
The new stadium is so nice. As a Red Sox fan in the dfw area, I went to tons of Red Sox rangers games over 20 years there. I only went to games when the Red Sox were in town because most of the season, it could be brutal in the heat. Now in the new stadium I’ll go with some rangers buddies to watch whoever they are playing because the tickets aren’t too bad compared to the rest of the sports in Dallas and you watch the game in total comfort. The walk to and from might be a bit of a pain in the heat, but more than worth it for the comfortable and excellent experience of the new ballpark.
You don’t understand how hot Texas gets in the summer ..It feels hotter then Nevada because of the humidity
As a lifelong Rangers fan I loved the Ballpark in Arlington. It truly was a great stadium, just built in the wrong climate. Whenever My family and I went it was either early season, or night games during the summer. Also definitely tried to get seats on the homerun porch or somewhere in the middle along first base side. I miss it but glad we have the Barn in Arlington now😂
The old ballpark was much more beautiful and felt more like an experience, but man 100 degree days were NIGHTMARES
Not sure the new stadium is what helped us win that title lol, we were undefeated on the road
I would say it helped, but definetly NOT the deciding factor.
I remember back in 2010, when Nolan was really working on the pitching, and with no roof... Yep, what a year!
@@Caderic Nolan was not pitching in 2010😂 Rangers were busy winning back to back AL pennants in the classic stadium at that time!
@@JBtakes "Nolan was not pitching in 2010" No shit dumb ass. He was the President and CEO of The Rangers! He was instrument in developing their pitching strategy.
He put a lot less weight on their pitch count and worked on how to get pitchers to go 7+ inning. That in turned, allowed them to pull one of their bull pin pitchers to the starting lineup, which also gave all the starters an extra game of rest.
The Jon Daniels ran Nolan off.
@@JBtakes Nolan was president of the Rangers back then and he was working on getting pitchers to pitch longer
I will always be so grateful I got to spend my childhood at the ballpark in Arlington. Sure it was hot but it was pretty much the greatest place ever as a baseball player because... well it was a ballpark, not an events center. Too many of the indoor facilities feel like your in an overgrown conference center. Nothing will ever beat staying after the game around 9oclock and getting to see the big full sized fireworks shows after. Such a great place.
I'm extremely familiar with The Ballpark (Globe Life Field), as well as their new facility.
Their new facility is a MAJOR REASON why they were a competitive post-season team (and ultimately champions).
The new field increased their chances of winning it all by a hundred-fold.
First the equipment...then the talent. That's the bottom line.
I’m someone who can handle heat but I went to a day game for my first and only time to the ballpark in Arlington for a game in June. I have never felt that type of heat in my life. There was no wind and it was just sun the entire time in left field. I saw that it felt like 115 degrees after adding the humidity. Insane heat.
The Ballpark in Arlington has almost all my childhood memories, but as someone who has got to help with a few events at the new Globe Life stadium….its better than the Cowboys new stadium by a mile.
I loved the old ballpark. I had friends who worked there and the views were immaculate. If you stayed up top, you caught a slight breeze. If you sat in the 200s or below in the open air, you were victim to the brutal Texas sun. I literally got heat stroke twice a the old ballpark. It was charming, but the lies of a roof for years was my only wish and they never came to fruition. I love Globe Life Field, it just took some getting used to.
I remember my dad picking seats based off of the time of the game. He'd pick seat for us to where we would be in the shade most of the game.
It hurt my heart a little bit when he was talking about moving away from multi-purpose stadiums and then at 2:48 showed a picture of old Tiger Stadium.
Took a 3 week insurance course down there in 2010 and went to a few games. Beautiful stadium and an awesome $1 dog night. Spent time feeding the ducks outside the stadium as well. Nothing but a good memory for me.
I freaking love that old ballpark. If only we could get the outside of the old one and the inside of the new one. The old one is just beautiful
One of the worst sunburns I ever had was from a 1pm game at the Ballpark in Arlington.
Thank you for the video. I recently moved to Texas for a really good job, about a couple of hours away from Arlington. Wanted to see the Rangers play my hometown Tigers but they always play around June and July. I thought they played in an open stadium and I can not stand the heat lol. Now I know so I can book some tickets soon! Thanks again!
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@@rashaadjorden1187 and this video is free as well 😂
Arlington Stadium if you sat in the upper row below the scoreboard the breeze was awesome
Yes, the new stadium looks like an aluminum barbecue grill.
But it doesn't FEEL like it.
After one 72F ballgame in August, ALL IS FORGIVEN.
I was a tour guide at the Ballpark in 94-96 while in grad school. I used to study there during games, actually wrote my thesis in the right field bleachers. Sure, July day games were brutal, and the All Star game in 95 may have been the hottest night game on record (I enjoyed it from the AC-ed Museum), but night games were generally not that bad.
There was a simple fix. It's called a roof.
yes the texas rangers has 3 stadiums in arlington tx in the dallas fort worth area.
And still no public transportation to the park.