![]() ![]() When designing Globe Life Park, one essential lesson was lost from games played at Arlington Stadium, the former minor-league ballpark expanded for the arrival of the Rangers in 1972: Attending a day game at the former Turnpike Stadium was a miserable experience thanks to the almost total lack of shade in the facility. With a budget of $191 million for the ballpark, the Rangers and the city of Arlington were not willing to more than double their spending to install a roof. SkyDome had opened in 1989 and cost an eye-popping $570 million, but retractable roofs had not emerged as an affordable technology in MLB baseball facilities, and the next one would not open until 1998. ![]() ![]() And, realistically, their only choice was between indoors and outdoors. Bush and future Rangers president Tom Schieffer, felt that baseball was an outdoor game not meant to be played indoors a la the Astrodome. Rangers ownership did consider building a dome instead of an open-air ballpark, but members of the ownership group, including future U.S. All in all, it is a very Texas facility.īut The Ballpark in Arlington-later Ameriquest Field, Rangers Ballpark and eventually Globe Life Park-opened with one major flaw: the lack of shade for the vast majority of seating. Decorative exterior touches echoed those found in local landmarks, including the iconic longhorn bas reliefs. Schwartz Architects, The Ballpark in Arlington took cues from several classic ballparks, with a right-field porch like the one found in Tiger Stadium, a manual scoreboard like Fenway Park’s Green Monster board, and arched windows like Comiskey Park. Opening in 1994 as The Ballpark in Arlington, Globe Life Park followed Oriole Park at Camden Yards in the new trend of retro ballparks. The end of the Texas Rangers-New York Yankees game Sunday will mark the end of an era: goodbye Globe Life Park, hello Globe Life Field, as the Rangers transition to a new ballpark for the 2020 season. By Kevin Reichard on Septemin Future Ballparks, History, Major-League Baseball ![]()
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