Wow i remember going to a lot of games in the old Arlington stadium . I can still see the faces of the vendors walking up and down those steps selling drinks food . On those hot summer nights , don't know if and how many of them are still alive but them vendors really deserve this world series win !!! That stadium is so nostalgic and i really miss it ! Love our Texas Rangers, to the old die hard ranger fans that are no longer with us that were there from the beginning you had the best seat in the house up in heaven watching the series in your nostalgic ranger blue colors and celebrating together up in heaven 👍👏👏👏
He isn't the father. My great grandfather is the one that got Turnpike Stadium built in the first place. He was Tarrant County Commissioner and directly responsible for the Ft. Worth Spurs having a stadium there. C.H. "Punch" Wright was his name. I have the wool Spurs jersey he wore at the ground breaking ceremony, my brother has the gold-plated shovel he used. Without that stadium, Tom wouldn't have been able to get the Senators attention. Keep it real, Fox4.
I'm a native Washingtonian who was born on the very same day the original Washington Senators played the final game in D.C. opposing the Balt. Orioles before later that month the Amer. Lea. owners allowed the team to switch places with the awarded expansion team in Minneapolis-St. Paul area given the name Twins, leaving for D.C. instead the futility of the expansion team for another eleven years, those last ten being on a 10-year lease at the new D.C. Stadium, which the eventual (new as of 1969) owner Robert E. Short took advantage of along with a broadcasting rights sweetheart deal in D-F.W. to take the team out of D.C. (on a personal note, I was taken with my younger brother by our sports watching uncle to see a mid-June Friday night game vs. eventual pennant winner Bost. Red Sox, then again to see the hoopla surrounding the 1969 Opening Day with a new baseball commissioner Kuhn, new U.S. Pres. Nixon, new team owner and returning from a eight yr. big league exile rookie manager Ted "Teddy ballgame" Williams. We saw a third and last game on a routine Sat. afternoon just days following the opening of the 1971 season vs. the N.Y. Yanks, same matchup as the season opener two years before-the Yanks starter Mel Stottlemyre took the wins in both of the games). The new K.C. Athletics owner in 1962-63 Charlie O. Finley had true interest in taking the A's in the middle 1960s to the Dallas-Ft. Worth area, presumably out in that Turnpike Stad. If Finley had acted on that, it would have made Short to consider going to his American Assoc. AAA team in Denver at Mile High Stad. where there had been a search to have a big lea. team as early as the middle 1960s also and took near three decades until the early 1990s for that to be realized with the Rockies.
That’s awesome! Although Vandergriff had been trying to get a Major League Baseball team here since 1958, seven years before the turnpike stadium was built. Of course he knew they had to have a stadium built because that’s why they lost the opportunity to have a team here in 1962, and as a result Houston got an MLB team instead. Because Arlington didn’t have a stadium. Tom pitched the idea of having the team’s home in Arlington because back then, Ft. Worth and Dallas were huge rivals. He suggested Arlington because it would be neutral ground between the two competing large cities and everyone would be happy. Or wouldn’t care. Lol
@@gregpaspatis9425interesting. Based on a documentary I recently watched, turnpike stadium wasn’t built until 1965. Arlington lost out on the chance to get a franchise team to move there back in 1962 due to the fact that they didn’t have a stadium. Therefore, Houston got a team instead: the Colt 45s moved to Houston and became the Astros. That’s when Vandergriff and others realized they needed to work on getting a minor league stadium built, one that could easily be expanded in a short amount of time, so that would increase their chances of getting the MLB team there in the DFW area that they so desperately wanted.
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Wow i remember going to a lot of games in the old Arlington stadium . I can still see the faces of the vendors walking up and down those steps selling drinks food . On those hot summer nights , don't know if and how many of them are still alive but them vendors really deserve this world series win !!! That stadium is so nostalgic and i really miss it ! Love our Texas Rangers, to the old die hard ranger fans that are no longer with us that were there from the beginning you had the best seat in the house up in heaven watching the series in your nostalgic ranger blue colors and celebrating together up in heaven 👍👏👏👏
I remember the cheap bleacher seats. Those are only ones my family and I sat in. Lol
He isn't the father. My great grandfather is the one that got Turnpike Stadium built in the first place. He was Tarrant County Commissioner and directly responsible for the Ft. Worth Spurs having a stadium there. C.H. "Punch" Wright was his name. I have the wool Spurs jersey he wore at the ground breaking ceremony, my brother has the gold-plated shovel he used. Without that stadium, Tom wouldn't have been able to get the Senators attention. Keep it real, Fox4.
I'm a native Washingtonian who was born on the very same day the original Washington Senators played the final game in D.C. opposing the Balt. Orioles before later that month the Amer. Lea. owners allowed the team to switch places with the awarded expansion team in Minneapolis-St. Paul area given the name Twins, leaving for D.C. instead the futility of the expansion team for another eleven years, those last ten being on a 10-year lease at the new D.C. Stadium, which the eventual (new as of 1969) owner Robert E. Short took advantage of along with a broadcasting rights sweetheart deal in D-F.W. to take the team out of D.C. (on a personal note, I was taken with my younger brother by our sports watching uncle to see a mid-June Friday night game vs. eventual pennant winner Bost. Red Sox, then again to see the hoopla surrounding the 1969 Opening Day with a new baseball commissioner Kuhn, new U.S. Pres. Nixon, new team owner and returning from a eight yr. big league exile rookie manager Ted "Teddy ballgame" Williams. We saw a third and last game on a routine Sat. afternoon just days following the opening of the 1971 season vs. the N.Y. Yanks, same matchup as the season opener two years before-the Yanks starter Mel Stottlemyre took the wins in both of the games). The new K.C. Athletics owner in 1962-63 Charlie O. Finley had true interest in taking the A's in the middle 1960s to the Dallas-Ft. Worth area, presumably out in that Turnpike Stad. If Finley had acted on that, it would have made Short to consider going to his American Assoc. AAA team in Denver at Mile High Stad. where there had been a search to have a big lea. team as early as the middle 1960s also and took near three decades until the early 1990s for that to be realized with the Rockies.
That’s awesome! Although Vandergriff had been trying to get a Major League Baseball team here since 1958, seven years before the turnpike stadium was built. Of course he knew they had to have a stadium built because that’s why they lost the opportunity to have a team here in 1962, and as a result Houston got an MLB team instead. Because Arlington didn’t have a stadium.
Tom pitched the idea of having the team’s home in Arlington because back then, Ft. Worth and Dallas were huge rivals. He suggested Arlington because it would be neutral ground between the two competing large cities and everyone would be happy. Or wouldn’t care. Lol
@@gregpaspatis9425interesting. Based on a documentary I recently watched, turnpike stadium wasn’t built until 1965. Arlington lost out on the chance to get a franchise team to move there back in 1962 due to the fact that they didn’t have a stadium. Therefore, Houston got a team instead: the Colt 45s moved to Houston and became the Astros. That’s when Vandergriff and others realized they needed to work on getting a minor league stadium built, one that could easily be expanded in a short amount of time, so that would increase their chances of getting the MLB team there in the DFW area that they so desperately wanted.