Texas Rangers Stadiums - Texas Rangers Spring Training Venues, Washington Senators (1961-1971) Stadiums, Washington Senators Stadiums (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Texas Rangers Spring Training Venues, Washington Senators (1961-1971) Stadiums, Washington Senators Stadiums, Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium, Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, Griffith Stadium, Arlington Stadium, Pompano Beach Municipal Park, Surprise Stadium. Excerpt: Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia RFK Stadium was home for 36 seasons to the Redskins, whose return to prominence as a football power began the same year (1960) that the original baseball Senators played their final season, relocating in 1961 to Minnesota as the Twins. The Redskins' first game in D.C. Stadium was a 24-21 loss to the New York Giants on October 1, 1961. The team's first win in the stadium was over its future archrival, the Dallas Cowboys, on December 17, 1961. This was the only win in a 1121 season, and it came on the final weekend of the regular season. The Redskins' last win at RFK was a 3710 victory over the Cowboys on December 22, 1996. The stadium's design was nearly circular, attempting to facilitate both football and baseball. It was the first to use the so-called "cookie-cutter" concept, an approach also used by Philadelphia, New York, Houston, Atlanta, St. Louis, San Diego, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh. However, as would become the case with every other stadium where this was tried, the design was not ideal for either sport due to the different shapes and sizes of the playing fields. As the playing field dimensions for football and baseball vary greatly, seating had to accommodate the larger playing surface. In the case of RFK Stadium, this resulted in the first ten rows of the football configuration being nearly at field level, making it difficult to see over the players. As a baseball park, RFK was a particular target... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=487561