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NOW DEMOLISHED, Arlington Stadium was built in 1964, with a seating capacity of about 10,000, to house the minor-league Dallas-Fort worth Spurs. It was known as Turnpike Stadium during its Minor-league days, until 1971, when the American League's Washington Senators, renamed the Texas Rangers, moved here for the 1972 season. They added a couple of decks plus a press box above home plate, increasing capacity to slightly over 35,000. But a minor-league ballpark it remained (despite further renovation in 1992 that increased capacity to 43,000): Seating was about as close to the action as at a minor-league game, with the exception of the top deck behind home plate. The food and parking were adequate-all in all, a cozy, even intimate, setting for a major-league game.
Arlington Cowboys Stadium did not have the structural capacity to add luxury suites or other amenities, and toward the end, it seemed rather run-down. But until it was replaced in 1993 by Ballpark in Arlington, built a couple of blocks away, this funky, former minor-league ballpark was about as close as you could get to the action at any ballpark west of Wrigley Field.
WILLIE BLAIR "The first game, I was relieving at the time, so I didn't play in the first game I was on the roster. But what I remember about that game was, Nolan Ryan was pitching, and he was always my favorite player. He had a no-hitter through five innings, but they took him out 'cause it was kind of cold and it was the first game of the season."
MIKE CUBBAGE "[Arlington] was where I broke in. Billy Martin was my first manager, with the Texas Rangers in 1974. It was an old minor-league ballpark. It was a tough park on left-handed hitters 'cause the wind blew in from right field. Mike Epstein came down from the Senators and really hated the ballpark 'cause he used to hit a lot of high fly balls to right field, and the wind would knock'em down. Jeff Burroughs, same way. He had power the other way, he'd hit balls to right center field that the wind would bring back into the ballpark."
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