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The stadium was expanded to seat over 35,700 people, and was renamed Arlington Stadium. The stadium played host to its first major league game on April 21, 1972, when the Rangers inaugurated the stadium by defeating the California Angels , 7–6; MLB's first-ever strike had disrupted the start of the 1972 season, hence the later than ...
Turnpike Stadium, a minor league stadium first owned by Tarrant County and then the City of Arlington with an initial seating capacity of 10,000, Was their home for the 1969, '70 and '73 seasons while a local civic park, Randoll Mill Park, was home for the 1971 and '72 seasons (two rescheduled games in 1973 were played at Randoll Mill Park ...
The Spurs set many Texas League attendance records, especially after Turnpike Stadium expanded to a capacity of 20,500 in 1970. [10] The Dallas-Fort Worth area was considered a prime location for an expansion team or a re-located franchise. Indeed, Turnpike Stadium had been built specifically to attract a major-league team to the Metroplex.
Dec. 13, 1960: Angus Wynne, Jr., founder of Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington, points out where the LaSalle River Adventure ride will be built during a 1960 inspection tour. Aug. 5, 1961: Six ...
Later, Mercer and Hunt would own the Dallas-Fort Worth Spurs minor league baseball team, the first occupant of Arlington’s old Turnpike Stadium. End zone tickets to see the Chiefs sold for $1.50 ...
1964 was the end of professional baseball at Burnett Field. When the Texas League revived the franchise in 1965, as the Dallas-Fort Worth Spurs, both LaGrave and Burnett Fields were replaced by Turnpike Stadium, later called Arlington Stadium, midway between Dallas and Fort Worth in Arlington, Texas.
By November 1957, three months after opening, the turnpike counted its 1 millionth customer: E.W. Locker, a 28-year-old from Arlington Heights who was commuting to the new General Motors plant in ...
The City of Arlington had just purchased Turnpike Stadium from Tarrant County, a minor league baseball stadium with the ability to host football games. The stadium was a lure for a major league team (eventually becoming the home of the Texas Rangers in 1972), but the City did not have a full-time tenant during the fall. Seeing a cost-effective ...