Baseball As America Buses for Baseball DFW Area Youth Ballparks Dr Pepper Hall of Fame Luncheon Dr Pepper/Texas Rangers Sluggers of the West Awards Dinner Habitat for Humanity Holiday Hospital Visits Ozarka Texas Rangers Alumni Legacy Golf Classic Park Place Dealerships Triple Play

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If you’ve ever “played hardball” in a business meeting, or given a “ballpark estimate,” you know that baseball is ingrained in American culture. The Baseball As America exhibit, open from Sept. 28, 2007 through Jan. 13, 2008 at Dallas’ Museum of Science and Nature, explores that confluence. View exhibits from the Baseball Hall of Fame that demonstrate the game’s unique position in our national life. This exhibition was organized by The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Cooperstown, NY.
The Texas Rangers and Major League Baseball Players Association once again will host children from the DFW Metroplex. Buses for Baseball is a program administered by the Players Trust for Children. The MLBPA provide complimentary tickets and food coupons for at-risk children to attend Major League Baseball games. As part of the program, several Texas Rangers players will greet the children and sign autographs. The Fort Worth T sponsors transportation for the youngsters to attend the game. For more information, please call (817) 273-5207.
The Texas Rangers have built seven youth ballparks throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex since 1993. Texas Rangers officials began the program in order to give back to the community for their support. In addition, the Youth Ballparks are a way to give children in lower socio-economic neighborhoods a place to play baseball.

The seven ballparks are scattered across the Metroplex at the following locations: Texas Rangers Youth Ballpark (River Oaks), Texas Rangers Youth Ballpark (Dallas), Juan Gonzalez Texas Rangers Youth Ballpark (Oak Cliff), Johnny Oates Texas Rangers Youth Ballpark (West Dallas), Will Clark Texas Rangers Youth Ballpark (Fort Worth), Ivan Rodriguez Texas Rangers Youth Ballpark (Forth Worth), and the Royce Clayton Texas Rangers Youth Ballpark (Lancaster). Plans are under way to build a Rusty Greer ballpark in Frisco. For more information, please call (817) 273-5207.

The 2007 Dr Pepper Texas Rangers Hall of Fame Luncheon will take place at the Arlington Hilton hotel on Friday, Aug. 10, 2007. It will feature several Alumni Legacy members as celebrities and the 2007 Hall of Fame inductee(s). For more information, please call 817-273-5203.
The Texas Rangers hosted the awards dinner at Eddie Deen’s Ranch in Dallas, TX. Guests were treated to the award winning cuisine of Eddie Deen with a steak and chicken dinner served family-style.

At the dinner, the Dallas/Fort Worth Chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America handed out a variety of Rangers awards for last season, including Player of the Year – Gary Matthews, Jr., Pitcher of the Year – Akinori Otsuka, Tom Grieve Minor League Player of the Year – Nate Gold, Nolan Ryan Minor League Pitcher of the Year – Eric Hurley, Rookie of the Year – Ian Kinsler, and Harold McKinney Good Guy Award – Mark Teixeira.
In 2006, the Texas Rangers, along with several corporate sponsors, built and dedicated three more Habitat for Humanity Houses to the Lewis Family from Mosier Valley, the Hall Family of Grayson County, and the Road Trip House to Monique Perkins and her four children of Plano. The partnership between the Texas Rangers and Habitat for Humanity – an extensive community outreach initiative to underscore two important American fixtures – baseball and home ownership. The Rangers will again be building three more homes during the 2007 season.
Texas Rangers players, front office, Santa Claus and Rangers Captain visited Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth on Dec. 15. The Rangers group helped make different crafts and visited individual rooms.
The Ozarka Texas Rangers Alumni Legacy Golf Classic will be held on Thursday, Aug. 9 at The Links at WaterChase Golf Course in Fort Worth, Texas. The tournament features Rangers Alumni Legacy Celebrities, great prizes, putting contest, lunch, first class gift bags and much more. The $5,000 MVP package includes one team (three players per team), two tee box signs, display company logo at awards lunch and showcase hole signage, company banner may be displayed on course (if provided), full page advertisement in the golf program, may provide item for gift bag (subject to Rangers approval), special sponsor gift, ProStar video board and public address recognition on Sunday, Aug. 12, representative in an on- field presentation and two tickets to the Sunday, Aug. 12 presentation, recognition in the 2007 program and 2007 Community Report, two tickets to the Friday, Aug. 10 private Legacy Alumni reception during the game, and an autographed momento. All proceeds benefit the Texas Rangers Baseball Foundation. For more information regarding the event, please contact Jenny Martin at 817-273-5219 or at communityrelations@texasrangers.com.
Park Place Dealerships served as the title sponsor of the Park Place Dealerships Texas Rangers Triple Play Game Show Spectacular for the fourth consecutive year. The Triple Play event, held May 6 at the Hilton Anatole hotel in Dallas, attracted more than 600 fans and raised nearly $400,000 for charity.

The event, chaired by Mark and Leigh Teixeira, along with Josh and Dana Lewin and the Hicks Family, featured a Hollywood Oscar party theme with dinner, live and silent auctions. New this year Rangers third baseman Hank Blalock and catcher Gerald Laird competed in the Rangers version of Iron Chef America with the secret ingredient being pasta. The food was judged by Dallas Morning News beat writer Evan Grant, boxing promoter Don King, and Rangers bench coach Art Howe. Laird was named top chef! Several other Rangers players competed in some of America’s favorite game shows, including Fielders Feud, based on the popular TV game show Family Feud, and a game styled after Hollywood Squares. Proceeds from the event will benefit the Texas Rangers Baseball Foundation.