Copyright Hosted by Hosting 4 Less. Once inside the ballpark, a brick Walk of Fame containing information and rosters of every Texas Rangers team extended around the entire facility. Globe Life Park was the only retro ballpark built enclosed with over 49, seats and a four story office complex past center-field.
Great views could be found from just about anywhere in the ballpark. However, the upper deck was the furthest from the action in major league baseball history. The main five tier grandstand extended from behind home plate down to the right field foul pole, and down to and around the left field foul pole to the office complex in centerfield.
In right field was a double decked covered homerun porch, similar to the one that was located at Tiger Stadium in Detroit. Globe Life Park hds many modern features including luxury suites divided into two tiers, with each suite named after a MLB All-Star player.
It was originally designed as a picnic area for fans but the Rangers have never initiated this policy. It was named after former Arlington mayor Richard Greene in November For a couple of years in the s, the Rangers had the "T" from the Texas Rangers logo mowed into the grass, but this is no longer done.
In , the Rangers started a tradition where they had four girls run around on it with giant flags of the Flag of Texas when the Rangers scored, similar to what many football teams do when their teams score. The stadium contains 5, club seats and luxury suites. The field is one of the most notoriously hitter-friendly parks in baseball, due to the high temperatures, relatively short fences, and the design of the stadium which has allowed the area's high winds to swirl and lift balls that wouldn't normally make it out.
Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "[". With a combination of the park's design and the naturally good hitters who've played for the Rangers, the team has put up some rather high home run totals. In , the Rangers hit homers. They eclipsed again in , , , , , , and , four short of the all-time record of by the Seattle Mariners. Dimensions [10]. Despite being hailed as a wonderful venue in its infant years, articles in The Dallas Morning News began to suggest that the ballpark would have been better served by having a dome or retractable roof — much like Minute Maid Park , the home of the Houston Astros — due to the often oppressive heat that settles over Texas during baseball season, with temperatures on the field being in excess of degrees.
Many argue that the intense heat is a liability in attracting players, particularly starting pitchers. That being said, it is questionable that retractable roof technology was a good candidate at the time the stadium was constructed, when modern mechanical retractable-roof ballparks like Chase Field , Safeco Field , Minute Maid Park , and Miller Park would not open until several years after it.
While retractable roof solutions did exist at the time, they had significant detractors. The Rogers Centre formerly SkyDome , which opened in , has a motorized retractable roof. Mildly depressing". One reason for the extra funding sources was that it was a multipurpose venue, being used for a wide variety of sports, as well as conventions.
Its technology therefore would have been cost prohibitive to the Rangers, who did not have the benefit of those extra sources of funding, and where the total cost was well over six times that of Globe Life Park in Arlington. Many local sports writers in recent years have suggested adding a roof but the idea has not found any traction within the Rangers organization.
On December 3, , the Rangers announced that extensive renovations to the stadium would be made and ready for the season. On April 11, , the first game at the ballpark, Holly Minter, who was posing for a picture while intoxicated, fell 35 feet over a railing in right field, fracturing several bones and causing the team to raise the height of the railings.
On July 6, , firefighter Tyler Morris, leaning over the rail to catch a Nelson Cruz foul ball, fell 30 feet onto the section below him, causing a head injury and a severely sprained ankle to himself and minor injuries to fans he landed on.
On July 7, , firefighter Shannon Stone, from Brownwood, Texas, was attending the Rangers game against the Oakland Athletics with his six-year-old son, Cooper, when outfielder Josh Hamilton threw him a ball, as he had asked. A tarp was placed over the opening through which Stone fell.
When it came time to choose a new location in Arlington, the park, simply called the Ballpark in Arlington, was built a mere yards south of the old venue, which was razed to make way for parking. David M. Schwartz was chosen as the design architect. Though Schwartz was based in Washington, D. The amenities included double-decked private suites, a four-story office building to house the Rangers front office and other enterprises, a brick and granite outside frieze, as well as a year-round full-service restaurant and the Legends of the Game baseball museum both of which later closed.
The surrounding area and landscaping included a Little League-sized park with seats, nine color-coded parking lots, and a twelve-acre manmade lake later named Mark Holtz Lake in honor of Ranger radio announcer Mark Holtz, an avid fisherman, who died in Even old Arlington Stadium was not forgotten, as the foul poles and some of the bleacher seats were transferred to the Ballpark.
In reaction to the symmetry that characterized the circular multi-purpose stadiums of the s and s, the playing field was deliberately asymmetrical, measuring feet to left field, to left-center, to center, to deep right-center, to right-center, and to right. The fence was fourteen feet high in left field, and eight feet high in center and right field. Groundbreaking took place on October 30, , at the approximate site of home plate eventually, the playing field would be twenty-two feet below ground level and would feature Bermuda grass from a sod farm in Granbury.
Construction began on April 24, , and the park was completed in time for the baseball season. The remainder came from the sale or lease of luxury boxes and seat options, loans guaranteed by the Rangers, concessions contracts, and city street funds. The grand opening, featuring Van Cliburn and the Fort Worth Symphony performing the national anthem, was the first regular season game on April
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