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Dallas Rangers
Dallas Rangers and the Cats (1932–1942, 1946–1958, 1964). As of 2006, a
1958 1964
1958–1964 Fort Worth Cats independent league club was still using
(1958–1964) the latter name.
Dallas, Texas In 1959, the American Association expanded and ad-
mitted both cities to AAA baseball, Dallas as an unaffiliat-
Team Logo Cap Insignia ed club and Fort Worth as an affiliate of the Chicago Cubs.
Dallas outdrew Fort Worth, 130,000 to 97,000, and the two
Class-level teams were merged in 1960 as the top farm team of the
Kansas City Athletics. The Dallas Cowboys were initially
• Triple-A (1959–1964)
• Double-A (1958) called the Dallas Rangers but were renamed to avoid con-
fusion with the baseball club.[2]
Minor league affiliations The Rangers struggled on the field and at the gate
• Pacific Coast League (1963–1964) that season, finishing last and drawing only 113,000 fans.
• American Association (1959–1962) In 1961 and 1962, the team was affiliated with the expan-
• Texas League (1958) sion Los Angeles Angels and featured future MLB stars
Major league affiliations such as Jim Fregosi and Dean Chance, but continued to
lag behind other Association members in attendance. In
• Kansas City Athletics (1960 and 1964) 1962, the team was jointly affiliated with both the Angels
• Minnesota Twins (1963)
and the Philadelphia Phillies.
Philadelphia Phillies (1962)
Los Angeles Angels (1961–1962) When the American Association itself folded after the
1962 season, the Rangers joined the Pacific Coast League
Name and affiliated with the Minnesota Twins. The 1963 Dallas-
Fort Worth Rangers, managed by Jack McKeon, finally
• Dallas Rangers (1958–1959), (1964) reached the .500 level, but the Minnesota affiliation last-
• Dallas-Fort Worth Rangers (1960–1963)
ed only one year. The lowly A’s returned as the team’s
Ballpark parent in 1964. Moreover, that season the Texas League
placed a team in Fort Worth, and the Rangers reverted to
• Burnett Field
their Dallas-only identity.
Minor league titles The last Dallas Rangers club, managed by John McNa-
mara, won only 53 of 157 PCL games and drew only 39,000
fans. The franchise moved to Vancouver in 1965. The
League titles
Dallas-Fort Worth regional name was then applied to the
Texas League club, which played in Arlington and be-
came known as the Spurs through 1971. The old nick-
The Dallas Rangers were a high-level minor league base- name Rangers was revived for the major league Texas
ball team located in Dallas, Texas, from 1958-64. The team Rangers, who moved to Turnpike (renamed Arlington)
was known by the Dallas Rangers name in 1958-59 and Stadium in 1972.
1964 and as the Dallas-Fort Worth Rangers from 1960-63.
It played in the Class AA Texas League in 1958, the AAA
American Association from 1959–62 and the AAA Pacific References
Coast League in 1963-64, and its home stadium was Bur- [1] "Dallas TL Club Named Rangers". Dallas Morning
nett Field. News. 1958-03-18. http://jonkokko.com/2010/10/
Both Dallas and Fort Worth had long and storied his- texas-rangers-name-history/.
tories in the Texas League. The Dallas club had had many [2] "Dallas Eleven Changes Made". New York Times:
nicknames since its founding in 1902 including the p. S4. 1960-03-20. http://select.nytimes.com/mem/
Griffins (1902), Giants (1903–1918), Marines (1919), Sub- archive/
marines (1920–1921), Steers (1922–1938), Rebels pdf?res=F60D1EFC39541A7A93C2AB1788D85F448685F9.
(1939–1942, 1946–1947) and Eagles (1948–1957), before it
was dubbed the Rangers in 1958,[1] its final TL campaign.
The Fort Worth team was called the Panthers (1902–1931)
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Additional reading ISBN 0-7385-3282-7. http://books.google.com/
books?id=p9ObELGZWNEC.
• Lloyd Johnson and Miles Wolff, editors. The • Kayser, Tom; King, David (2005). Baseball in the Lone
Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball, 1997 edition. Star State: Texas League’s Greatest Hits. Trinity
Durham, N.C.: Baseball America. University Press. ISBN 978-1-5953-4012-2.
• Holaday, Chris; Presswood, Mark (2004). Baseball in
Dallas. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing.
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