Texas Rangers Tickets - Arlington Ballpark Proves Bigger is Better!

It could be considered a baseball lover’s dream, 270 acres of a complex that exclusively serves as a source for baseball needs. As the saying goes, things are bigger in Texas and the Rangers Ballpark in Arlington holds up that statement quite well as giant for entertainment in the Southwest.

Constructed in a short 23 months, the Rangers Ballpark was built with the southern taste of Texas architecture at every turn. From the brick and granite façade to the exposed structural steel and asymmetrical playing field, Rangers Ballpark is big on style and space.

Built less than a mile away from the former home of the Rangers, Arlington Stadium, the new ballpark has itself situation on just about 1,400,000 square feet. Talk about larger and better? The Rangers Ballpark stands 114 feet from street level to the rooftop canopy!

The Rangers Ballpark comfortably seats 49,115 people in an open-air setting designed with intimacy and tradition in mind with a home run porch off the right field. The playing field is natural Bermuda Tifway 419. Grown on a sod farm in Granbury, Texas, this plush natural grass was laid in 100 foot strips by four in October of 1996. The irrigation system for the field pumps 750 gallons of water per minute, which is quite a contrast to the former field’s 18,000 per hour.

The dugouts are a spacious 68 feet with the Rangers’ bullpen situated parallel to the playing field in front of the home run porch. Both the Rangers’ and visitors’ bullpens are five feet above the playing field, allowing for easy identification of pitchers as they warm up.

For those who like the suite life, the ballpark as 120 suites; 72 on the upper level and 48 on the lower level. Suites are named after all-time star baseball players. Suites range from 8 seats to a huge 22 seats.

The Rangers Ballpark in Arlington first opened for business on April 1, 1994 and has been the home of the Rangers ever since. There are four levels in the ballpark. These levels consist of the service level, which is below ground, the main concourse which has a 70 foot high outer area and a 35 foot inner area. Green structural steel trusses adorned with the Texas Lone Stars and white walls cover this area. The club level is direct access for the upper and lower suites, the upper concourse is the open air area.

Concrete arches from the outer walls and provide an excellent reinforcement to the entire structure. With a scoreboard system that is second to none, fans enjoy a state of the art system that provides a game-in-progress board, auxiliary scoreboards, SportsTicker board and center field message board.

Additional features of the Rangers Ballpark in Arlington include the Walk of Fame, Greene’s Hill, and Statues in Vandergriff Plaza, The Gold Club, the Dr. Pepper Youth Ballpark, a Children’s Learning Center, the Legends of the Game Baseball Museum and the Coca-Cola Sports Park.