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As Major League Baseball teams go, the Texas Rangers got a late start in life and came at it from an oblique angle.
When the Washington Senators moved to Minnesota (to become the Twins) before the 1961 season, Major League Baseball acted swiftly to accelerate their expansion plans. In particular, they spun up both the Los Angeles Angels and a new team in the nation’s capital … the new Senators.
When the owner (and general manager) of those Senators, Bob Short, couldn’t extort a new stadium from Washington, DC, by the end of the 1971 season, he agreed to move his franchise to Arlington, Texas. American League owners approved the relocation by a 10-2 vote, and the Senators were no more … again.
So, in the spring of 1972, the Texas Rangers began a trek that has now spanned more than 45 years and gained them entry into some exclusive clubs. Consider …
- The Rangers are one of two teams — with the Minnesota Twins — who were once known as the Washington Senators.
- The Rangers were one of eight current franchises who had never won the World Series…until they got off the snide in 2023.
- The Rangers are one of three expansion teams (Milwaukee Brewers and Washington Nationals) who started life in another city.
- The Rangers are the only MLB team in Texas who has never changed leagues.
And the list could go on and on.
In fact, the list of stuff to know about the Texas Rangers is way too big for one post or even one website to spell out in full.
They are the TEXAS Rangers, after all, and everything is bigger there, even if it hasn’t been around as long as others of its ilk.
So, instead of trying to dump every available fact about the Rangers in this space, we’ve instead pulled together all of the best resources about Texas’s second MLB team.
What you’ll find below are the best sites the web has to offer when it comes to learning about and keeping up with the Texas Rangers, all broken down into Lone-Star-bite-sized pieces so you can find what you’re looking for at any given moment.
Enjoy the ride, and check back for updates!
Table of Contents
- 1 Texas Rangers Baseball History
- 2 Texas Rangers Players
- 3 Texas Rangers Uniforms
- 4 Texas Rangers Logos
- 5 Texas Rangers Baseball Cards and Collectibles
- 6 Texas Rangers Blogs
- 7 Team Websites & News
- 8 Texas Rangers Social Media
- 9 Texas Rangers Television and Radio
- 10 Texas Rangers Tickets
- 11 Texas Rangers Books
Texas Rangers Baseball History
Even though the Rangers have only been around as the Rangers since 1972, that’s still more than 45 years worth of baseball to cover.
Luckily, there are plenty of sites to serve up your Rangers in lots of different ways. Here are some of the best we’ve found.
Baseball Reference Rangers Page
If you were forced to pick just one website from which to get your baseball information for the rest of your life, you couldn’t do much better than Baseball Reference. This site give you all the stats and trivia you could ever need, and they even have some narrative pieces to remind you that baseball is a human game. When it comes to the Texas Rangers, you can begin your journey at BR’s team page.
You can also find more of the Rangers story on their BR Bullpen page.
Rangers History at Major League Baseball
Sometimes, you just need to go right to the source when you’re looking for information. And who better to tell you about the history of a Major League Baseball team than MLB themselves? You can check out the MLB Rangers history page here.
Note that MLB also provides a pretty interesting Rangers timeline.
Not surprisingly, Wikipedia checks in with a solid page full of interesting Rangers history and trivia. While you may not want to knock out research papers using Wikipedia as your only source, they’re hard to beat when it comes to up-to-date information about whatever topic you’re checking into.
The Texas Rangers are no exception.
Texas State Historical Association
As you might expect, the state of Texas is proud of its sports teams. To that end, the Texas State Historical Association has put together an account of Rangers history that is worth your time to check out.
ESPN may be losing its grip on the title of “The Worldwide Leader in Sports,” but they are still an authoritative source, and their Rangers history page is a good starting point for digging out information about the franchise.
Sports Team History is a site devoted to … well … sports team histories. They do a good job of presenting a brief, general history of each team, as well as a timeline and links out to visual histories around logos and uniforms. Their Texas Rangers page is here.
In decades past, hard-copy encyclopedias were often the best or only source of information about most topics. While physical books continue their slide into oblivion, there are still “encyclopedias” running around on the web, and Britannica maintains a strong presence. Check out their Rangers page for a good general overview and links to related topics like “Nolan Ryan” and “Fergie Jenkins.”
The Sport E-Cyclopedia may not be a household name and their design is a bit dated, but they sure do jam a lot of information into each page. Check out their Texas Rangers entry for a detailed, narrative history of the club — but be prepared to spend more than couple of minutes on the site!
Reference for Business is a site that presents narrative case studies and histories for businesses in a variety of industries. On their Rangers page, they run down the franchise story and then present about a dozen other references you can dig into for even more information.
The voluminous Baseball Almanac website takes on the history of the Washington Senators and Texas Rangers on this mostly narrative page. Also included are all-time statistical leaders for both teams, as well as a handful of interesting “Fast Facts.”
“What’s a City without Baseball?” reads the title of Arlington’s page devoted to the Rangers. Yeah, they get it, and their page is worth a (quick) read.
The Baseball Gauge serves up a series of baseball-related dashboards with a strong SABR bent. For instance, their Texas Rangers page shows the top Rangers pitchers and batters, in terms of WAR, since their inception as the new-look Senators in 1961. Other goodies abound on this site, too, and it’s another destination that might suck you in for far longer than you 
intended.
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Texas Rangers Players
Baseball Reference List of Rangers Batters
Baseball is all about the connections we make with teams and players, and you really can’t know a team without having a good handle on who has worn their uniforms over the years. No one does a better job of helping you make those connections than Baseball Reference, and their list of all Rangers batters will keep you busy for as long as you want (and more).
Baseball Reference List of Rangers Pitchers
Baseball Reference has you covered in terms of Rangers pitchers, too, from Rich Hand to Danny Darwin to Nolan Ryan and beyond.
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Texas Rangers Uniforms
Most Major League teams change up their look from time to time, whether to drive revenue through more jersey sales, to keep up with fashion trends, or just to freshen up outdated uniforms. The Rangers are no exception and have used several different uniforms throughout their existence. You can take a tour down the woolen/polyester/cotton memory lane with any and all of the following sites.
The MLB site provides descriptions of each major “look” sported by the Rangers over the years, as well as in-game photos 
featuring most of the togs. As a bonus, they also run down Texas’ logo changes (see the next section for more on Rangers logos).
Heritage Sports Art presents up-close views of most