Texas Rangers

The Texas Rangers are a Major League Baseball team based in Arlington, Texas, a suburb in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. They are in the West Division of the American League. They play at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington.

When the original Washington Senators moved to Minnesota in 1960 as the Twins, Major League Baseball decided to expand a year earlier than planned to stave off threats of lifting its antitrust exemption. At the winter meetings that year, it awarded new teams to Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.. FAA administrator Elwood Richard Quesada led the 10 man group that bought the Washington franchise. The new team adopted the old Senators name, but was (and still is) considered an expansion team since the Twins retain the old Senators' records and history.
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