Texas Rangers Research Paper

America’s Favorite Pass Time Everyone has a favorite pastime or a hobby, this could be creating artwork, reading a book, playing a sport, or even watching a professional sports team. Baseball is “America’s favorite pastime”, and living in Texas gives you two options when choosing who to root for, the Texas Rangers or the Houston Astros. If you’re from the Dallas area you are probably a big fan of the Rangers. The Texas Rangers are the best team in the American League West Division, making them one of the best teams in all of major league baseball this season. So many people are fans of the Rangers because they are unique and not like any other team in baseball. The history of this Texas team is so unique that actually started as the Washington Senators who eventually became the Texas Rangers in 1972. Since then there have been some memorable moments. That being said the team had excellent past players, such as Nolan Ryan, Fergie Jenkins, Ruben Sierra, Pudge …show more content…
At the beginning of the season, the Rangers lost their ace pitchers, Yu Darvish, to Tommy John surgery, taking him out for the whole season. This was a minor setback and led to a slow start to the season. The Rangers had an excellent May and an average summer. In August, all of the trades were finalized and those players started doing some major damage. They were sweeping series, hitting homeruns, and energizing the fans. In September, the team had one of the most important series of the whole season against the Houston Astros, the Rangers needed to sweep them to become first in the division. After winning every game in the series against the Astros the team never looked back. Texas finished the season as the American League West Division Champs. The Texas team attempted to win the American League Division Title against the Blue Jays in a hard fought battle but fell