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"This is the last pure place where Americans dream. This is the last great arena, the last green arena, where everybody can learn the lessons of life."
-- Marcus Giamatti
Legends of the Game features the largest collection of baseball-related artifacts outside of Cooperstown! With over 100 items from the National Baseball Hall of Fame, the story of baseball's greatest legends is told through their jerseys, bats, gloves, words of wisdom, and more. Imagine coming face to face with items that were once in the hands of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Roberto Clemente, Hank Aaron, Ty Cobb, and many others.
The Museum also features outstanding exhibits about Arlington's own "boys of summer," the Texas Rangers. With the Rangers entering an exciting new era, you won't want to miss the Museum's history of the team. You can trace the roots of the Rangers all the way back to their early days as the Washington Senators and learn about those who have made the team legendary throughout the club's history - David Clyde, Jim Sundberg, Toby Harrah, and others.
Legends of the Game also includes exhibits on:
• Heroes of the Negro Leagues
• Women in professional baseball
• A replica of the KLIF radio broadcast booth
• A special section on the early Texas League
• Famous ballparks
• The Dallas Stars hockey team
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Learning Center:
Legends of the Game's Learning Center promises interactive baseball fun for your kids and the kid in you! Find the "sweet spot" on a bat, match your historical wits against past United States presidents, or even catch a Nolan Ryan fastball as you learn how baseball relates to history, math, science, geography, and communications. Even the littlest leaguer will enjoy doing "Ballpark rubbings." You don't want to miss it!
For more information, please contact the Museum at 817-273-5600 or museum@texasrangers.com.
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| $12 |
Adult |
| $10 |
Senior (62 & over) or Student w/ID |
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Youth (4-18) |
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Linedrives and Lipstick Exhibit:
In contrast to the depiction of women baseball as a short-lived phenomenon of the 1940s, America’s national pastime has included women players from baseball’s beginning in the 1860s. Their impact on the game and American society is brought clearly to light in Linedrives and Lipstick: The Untold Story of Women’s Baseball, an exhibition which opened April 7, 2008 at Legends of the Game Baseball Museum.
Although American society in general may have looked at women’s involvement in baseball as a curiosity, Linedrives and Lipstick brings to life the images of women who loved the crack of the bat and the thrill of a running one-handed catch with two outs in the ninth.
Visitors will get to know Jackie Mitchell, who struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in an exhibition game in 1931 and Sophie Kurys of the South Bend Blue Sox, who still holds the record for the most stolen bases in one season in any league -- 201 steals in 203 attempts in 1946.
The exhibition features more than 60 items, ranging from picture postcards, game programs, photographs, posters, and in-depth articles from mainstream magazines such as Colliers, Liberty, and The Saturday Evening Post. |
Negro Leagues History:
The Museum includes exhibit pieces depicting baseball's Negro Leagues. The last two summers, Rangers Ballpark has hosted a traveling exhibition from the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City. Former Indianapolis Clowns player William Blair, a Dallas resident, toured the exhibit as texasrangers.com recorded his recollections and insights on video. He also met Jerry Hairston, Junior, whose grandfather, Sam, played in the Negro Leagues. Watch the video here, then visit the Legends of the Game Baseball Museum to learn more about the Negro Leagues and all eras of baseball history. |
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Welcome to the Club: Sammy Sosa Slams 600 HR
Visit the Legends of the Game Museum on the south side of Rangers Ballpark in Arlington as the Rangers celebrate Sammy Sosa's admission into the 600 home run club. Not only will fans see highlights of Slammin' Sammy's career, but they'll also visit the history of other 600 club members - Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, and Barry Bonds. Sosa's 600th home run swing is captured in a time-lapse photo sequence, and both the home run and celebration is featured in a life-size video. Other objects fans will see are Sosa's Rangers rookie card, ticket stub from the game when he hit his 63rd home run during the 1998 season, the batting helmet, batting gloves, and shoes he wore when he hit number 600, and much more.
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