By David Lauterborn In his award-winning biography of John B. Jones, author Rick Miller also paints a vivid picture of the Texas Rangers’ heyday.
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Source: Rangers agree to deal for Cubs' Garza
By ESPN.com news services The Chicago Cubs have agreed to trade right-hander Matt Garza to the Texas Rangers, a team source confirmed to ESPNChicago.com’s Bruce Levine on Monday. …read more
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Texas woman's missing husband found buried in yard
A 62-year-old widow has been charged with murder after her long-missing husband was found buried in the front yard of their rural North Texas home.
Neola Robinson is charged in the 2010 death of her husband Ervin Robinson.
Lonny Haschel, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety, says Texas Rangers arrested Robinson on Saturday. Haschel says they exhumed her husband’s remains Tuesday from the yard of their mobile home in Pelican Bay, about 20 miles northwest of Fort Worth.
Robinson is being held in Tarrant County Jail with bond set at $150,000.
Online jail records listed no attorney for the widow.
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Rangers tag Scherzer (13-1) with 1st loss
By Associated Press Max Scherzer’s unbeaten run ended Saturday night when the Texas Rangers tagged the Detroit All-Star with his first loss of the season, defeating the Tigers 7-1. …read more
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Ryan, Rangers better together than apart
By Richard Justice In the end, it doesn’t matter who was promised what. All that matters is that Nolan Ryan has decided to remain with the Texas Rangers. To the millions of fans who care about this franchise, it’s a day to celebrate and to be reminded how good they’ve got it.
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Nolan Ryan staying as Texas Rangers' CEO
By Todd Wills After productive talks the past two weeks, the Texas Rangers announced Thursday that CEO Nolan Ryan is staying with the organization.
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Rangers hold on thanks to controversial call
By Associated Press A.J. Pierzynski and Mitch Moreland hit consecutive home runs off birthday boy Jeremy Hellickson and the Texas Rangers held on for a 5-4 victory over Tampa Bay in their series opener Monday. …read more
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Hamilton says wife called security before game
By Associated Press Los Angeles Angels outfielder Josh Hamilton says his wife had to call for security before his first game against the Texas Rangers because fans of his former team were shouting obscenities and personal insults at his family. …read more
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All the Yu Darvish Puns Sports Headline Writers Could Come Up With
In baseball news, last night Texas Rangers pitcher Yu Darvish came one out away from throwing a perfect game. Headline writers went to town:
Yu Darvish Perfect Game Bid Broken Up By Marwin Gonzalez After 26 Outs (VIDEO)
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Yu Darvish nearly achieved perfection. In his first start of the 2013 season, the Texas Rangers pitcher retired the first 26 batters that the Houston Astros sent to the plate on 110 pitches.
Darvish needed just one more out to become the 24th pitcher in MLB history to toss a perfect game.
With two away in the home ninth at Minute Maid Park, the right-hander from Japan delivered a 4-seam fastball to Marwin Gonzalez. A career .234 hitter, Gonzalez turned the 91-mph offering around and sent a sharp single right back up the middle, through Darvish’s legs. After the 26-year-old wheeled around to see if his infielders could preserve his bid for history, a smile crept across his face as the ball scooted into center field for a base hit.
Darvish comes within 1 out of perfect game
By Associated Press Yu Darvish was one out from a perfect game when Marwin Gonzalez grounded a clean single through the pitcher’s legs, and the Texas Rangers beat the Houston Astros 7-0 on Tuesday night. …read more
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Opening Day Business Of Baseball Storylines
By Kurt Badenhausen, Forbes Staff
Baseball gets underway Monday in full swing with a slate of 12 games after the Texas Rangers and new American League entrant Houston Astros kicked off the season Sunday night on ESPN. MLB is coming off a record year where baseball’s 30 teams generated $6.8 billion in revenue (MLB pegs total revenues at $7.5 billion for 2012, including MLB Advanced Media and other sources like the All-Star game that don’t trickle down to the teams). …read more
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Astros Beat Rangers 8-2 In MLB Season Opener
By The Huffington Post News Editors
HOUSTON — Rick Ankiel and the Houston Astros made an impressive debut in the American League, trouncing the Texas Rangers 8-2 Sunday night in the major league opener and giving Bo Porter a win in his first game as manager.
Ankiel launched a pinch-hit three-run shot for the first homer this season, Bud Norris pitched well for the win and Erik Bedard threw 3 1-3 scoreless innings for his first career save.
Astros overpower Rangers in AL debut
By Brian McTaggart Rick Ankiel belted a pinch-hit three run homer and Justin Maxwell tripled twice with two RBIs as the Houston Astros defeated the Texas Rangers, 8-2, at Minute Maid Park on Opening Night. …read more
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Astros soar in AL debut, open '13 with victory
By Associated Press Rick Ankiel and the Houston Astros made an impressive debut in the American League, trouncing the Texas Rangers 8-2 Sunday in the major league opener and giving Bo Porter a win in his first game as manager. …read more
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Louisville Slugger Announces New Logo And MLB Prime Bat In Advance Of Opening Day
By Darren Heitner, Contributor
The 2013 Major League Baseball championship season officially kicks off tonight with an Opening Night game between the Texas Rangers and Houston Astros at 8:05 p.m. ET. Professional baseball players, including those participating in tonight’s game, have left their respective Spring Training facilities and are on the way or have already reported to their Major League Baseball clubs for the start of the season. Those players will have their specific equipment (i.e. bats, gloves, spikes), that they prefer to use on the field and/or have chosen to endorse, shipped from their Spring Training locales to the destinations where they will begin the regular season. Over 60% of them, including Derek Jeter, Josh Hamilton, Evan Longoria and Buster Posey will be using Louisville Slugger products in 2013. …read more
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Gunfights of the Arizona Rangers
By David Lauterborn Overshadowed by the famed Texas Rangers, this small band
of lawmen roamed Arizona Territory in the early 1900s administering justice, sometimes in deadly frontier fashion.
Father of Sandy Hook victim to throw first pitch
By ESPNDallas.com Major League Baseball will honor the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting during the opening games of the 2013 season, including a father who will throw out the ceremonial first pitch for the Texas Rangers. …read more
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To forgive or not to forgive: What Josh Hamilton tells us about sports fandom
In a recently published article in Communication & Sport, Jimmy Sanderson, assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Clemson University, and Elizabeth Emmons, a doctoral student in the College of Communication and Information Sciences at the University of Alabama explore people’s willingness to forgive then Texas Rangers player Josh Hamilton after an incident in January 2012. …read more
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Pence, Torres provide thump as Cain shines
By Chris Haft Hunter Pence drove in three runs with a homer and a double to back Matt Cain‘s pitching and propel the San Francisco Giants to a 5-2 Cactus League victory Friday over the Texas Rangers. …read more
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