{"id":4155,"date":"2013-10-06T07:43:08","date_gmt":"2013-10-06T13:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=4155"},"modified":"2013-10-06T19:05:13","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T01:05:13","slug":"ballpark-tour-the-ballpark-in-arlingtonameriquest-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/ballpark-tour-the-ballpark-in-arlingtonameriquest-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballpark Tour: The Ballpark In Arlington\/Ameriquest Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Stadium Name:<\/strong> The Ballpark In Arlington\/Ameriquest Field<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location:<\/strong> Arlington<\/p>\n<p><strong>Home Team:<\/strong> Rangers<\/p>\n<p><strong>Years in Service:<\/strong> 1994 &#8211; Present<\/p>\n<p><strong>Visits:<\/strong> 7<\/p>\n<p>After spending their entire history at nearby Arlington Stadium, the Texas Rangers broke ground on their new stadium on April 2, 1992 and held their first game there nearly two years later, on April 11, 1994 against the Brewers. \u00a0The stadium was known by the somewhat clunky moniker of The Ballpark in Arlington until May of 2004, when Ameriquest bought the naming rights. \u00a0That deal ended in March of 2007, and the stadium was renamed again, this time to Rangers Ballpark in Arlington. \u00a0The stadium also includes a Rangers Hall of Fame, which includes historical artifacts from the team along with visiting collections from Cooperstown.<\/p>\n<p>I made my first trip to the Ballpark on May 22, 1998, to see the Rangers defeat the Royals during a visit to the Dallas area to see my dad. \u00a0I returned in 2001 for two games, against the Tigers and 2 days later against the White Sox. \u00a0In 2005, on my last trip to the area to date, I took in the entire 4 game series between the Rangers and the eventual World Series champion White Sox.<\/p>\n<p>Having never been to Arlington Stadium, I can&#8217;t compare the two, but I would assume that the Ballpark is a vast improvement over its predecessor. \u00a0The only downside I noticed in the games I attended was a day game under the hot Texas sun. \u00a0There&#8217;s not much to be done about that, however, without adding a retractable roof that would likely downgrade the overall stadium experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stadium Name: The Ballpark In Arlington\/Ameriquest Field Location: Arlington Home Team: Rangers Years in Service: 1994 &#8211; Present Visits: 7 After spending their entire history at nearby Arlington Stadium, the Texas Rangers broke ground on their new stadium on April 2, 1992 and held their first game there nearly two years later, on April 11, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[78,599,4047,601,121,4048,111,126,230,49],"class_list":["post-4155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-2005-world-series","tag-ameriquest-field","tag-arlington-stadium","tag-ballpark-in-arlington","tag-brewers","tag-dad","tag-rangers","tag-royals","tag-tigers","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4155"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4682,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4155\/revisions\/4682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}