Another baseball quickie to note the updates to this blog’s Baseball tag: adding Stadium 18/30, Globe Life Field in Arlington TX, to the DuBois Baseball Tour post (updated in 2023 for KC and 2024 for Boston) and our post-quarantine list of games attended this decade (primarily in SoCal).
I’d been to Dallas once before, for AIGA in 2017, but thunderstorms prevented me from exploring very much. DFW is a sprawly place, we had no car, and because Em was on spring break we didn’t expect to do a lot besides baseball. We stayed closer to Arlington in a weirdly-placed hotel next to I-30, halfway between the stadium and the airport. It was absolutely not conducive for exploring the big-box suburbs surrounding us, but it had a free trolley to the game.
As for Globe Life, our visit was 5 years in the making; we tried to get there in April 2020 and of course had to cancel for quarantine. That would have restarted our tour, which had stalled at 15 stadiums after 2016. We of course eventually restarted with KC and Boston as noted above. Check out the links for full details on our now two-decades long stadium tour and more recent baseball adventures.
This time, the open roof and pleasant spring weather added to a great overall vibe for a Rangers win over the Angels. Random trivia: this was the first time we’d actually seen Mike Trout play on the field; we’d either visited the Big A in 2005 and 2011, well before he joined the team, or while he was injured in 2021.
Anyway, there’s lots of 2020s Padre trivia at this site too, notably Slam Diego in 2020 and Joe Musgrove’s no-hitter a year later. 2024 Padre Kyle Higashioka is the current Rangers catcher. There are earlier player/manager/exec connections as well: Bochy, Preller, Darvish, Chris Young.
Ideally we’ll hit two more new stadiums later this summer, with another trip to Petco in SD before that. Maybe in 2026 we’ll finally go to Spring Training in Arizona. Stay tuned!
