1971- The Futility Begins: My History As A Fan
It took about four years to get from being aware of major league baseball to becoming a full-fledged team fan. My first major league game was a Senators game. I got free tickets to a game for doing a...
View ArticleThe Shlabotnik Non-Stars: George Wright, OF
In honor of good ol’ Charlie Brown, the Texas Rangers team full of high hopes and low results, but loved by the die-hard fan anyway! Some of the positions on the Rangers...
View Article16 Year Ranger Fan
So I have been given the weighty task of carrying on in my father’s footsteps for the next couple of days. As such I felt that as 40 Year Ranger Fan had done, I should share a little about my history...
View ArticleThe Shlabotnik Non-Stars: Bobby Witt, RHP
In honor of Joe Shlabotnik, Charlie Brown’s favorite player in the Peanuts comic strip, here is the latest player in Rangers history who we rooted for even when things didn’t work out. Here’s the...
View ArticleSpirit Of 76, The Hall Of Fame Vote & Other Sundry Matters
After a well-earned rest consisting of being sick as a dog for about a week, your humble scribe feels human again and finally able to write down a coherent thought or two to open 2012. Spirit of 76:...
View ArticlePudge
June 20, 1991. I was getting ready to watch another Rangers game on TV, this one a road contest against the Chicago White Sox. It was the first full year of the Bobby Valentine era. Rangers fans had...
View ArticleSaying Goodbye
There are players that have defined just about every era of Texas Rangers baseball, good and bad. The first team I followed, as the Washington Senators in 1970, were known primarily for Ted Williams...
View ArticleOh Nellie…
I am sick to death of everything associated with performance enhancing drugs. I’m sick of hearing about PED’s, I’m sick of hearing about athletes who are using PED’s, I wish it would go away and never...
View ArticleIt Was 20 Years Ago Today…
We’re not Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Instead, we’re 20-Year-Ranger-Fan, sitting in for 40-Year-Ranger-Fan and taking a grateful trip down Memory Lane. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) 20 years ago...
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