One afternoon a few years ago, Josh Hamilton was sitting in the video room at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, talking about his return to baseball after a four-year hiatus. "I'm surprised that [my] body has done as well as it has, the way I treated it all those years, the hell I put it through," he told me. "I'm surprised that I haven't been hurt more than I have been. Hopefully I can play 150 [games] or so every season."
St. Louis Cardinals struck first in baseball's World Series on Wednesday, beating Texas Rangers 3-2 in game one courtesy of a pinch-hit from substitute batter Allen Craig.
Much-needed rain fell across drought-stricken Texas on Sunday, offering relief but no end to what's been one of the state's driest years on record.
Baseball fan Shannon Stone, who fell over the railing at a Texas Rangers game, is remembered.
ARLINGTON, Texas -- He took the mound under a blazing autumn sun, the Debacle in Arlington still fresh in everyone's mind. No, Colby Lewis' start in Game 2 on a scorching Saturday afternoon at Rangers Ballpark was not Cliff Lee-esque -- the right-hander gave up six hits and two runs in 5 2/3 innings -- but it was good enough to give the long-suffering Texas faithful something they've never seen at their retro, red-brick ballyard: a win, at last, in the postseason.
Baseball great Nolan Ryan and a group of investors announced plans Monday to buy the Texas Rangers in a bankruptcy deal valued at $575 million.
Now that the New Jersey Devils are ensconced in their tony new digs in bucolic Newark, NJ -- never mind Barry Melrose's little crack about securing your valuables before venturing outside -- it's worth pondering just how long The Prudential Center will be with us. These days, stadiums and arenas vanish in the night, right along with your wallet.
The Texas Rangers Baseball Club said Tuesday it would drop the name of troubled subprime mortgage lender Ameriquest from its stadium.
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