Arlington Stadium (Texas Rangers)

Blanks are shredded bits of the plastic stadium seats mixed with complementary team-colored resin.

Available Sizes:

• Pen Blanks: Minimum 3/4" x 3/4" square
• Bottle Stopper and Ring Blanks: 1-1/2" round
• Full Pen Blocks: 6" x 5" and a minimum of 7/8" thick
• Knife Scale Pair: 2@ 5" x 1-1/2" x 3/8" minimum

All blanks include one Certificate of Authenticity (COA) per blank—a 4" x 6" card stock with foil-embossed seal, protected in a hard-shell plastic sleeve. Full Pen Blocks come with 10 COAs.

Most blanks are cut to order for freshness. Pen Blocks require a 2-3 week turnaround.

Arlington Stadium: Rangers' Rodeo Ring of Baseball Brilliance

Arlington Stadium straddled the beating heart of North Texas in Arlington, a multi-sport marvel birthed for minor-league dreams but destined for major-league magic. Groundbreaking sliced the turf in 1964, unleashing a $1.5 million concrete-and-steel sanctuary that flung open on April 21, 1965, as Turnpike Stadium—welcoming the Double-A Spurs with a 6-5 thriller over the El Paso Sun Kings before 1,500 fans. Rechristened Arlington Stadium in 1972 to herald the Texas Rangers' arrival, it embodied the city's bold bet on big-league baseball amid the oil-boom era's swagger and sprawl.

Ballooning from a cozy 10,600 seats to a raucous 43,521 by its swan song, the park encircled a hitter's haven on AstroTurf (swapped to grass in 1973): 330 feet to left and right, 400 to center, with 375-foot alleys primed for moonshots under those iconic Texas sunsets. Expansions roared in waves—doubling to 20,000 in 1970 for the Rangers' debut, upper decks in 1977 and 1980s suites boosting the buzz—while a $5 million 1981 facelift added club levels and the nacho (yes, the cheesy trailblazer debuted here). Dual-use football scars faded post-1982, honing it into a pure diamond den of intimate intensity.

Sanctuary for the Texas Rangers across 22 sun-baked seasons, Arlington cradled Nolan Ryan's Express fireworks—five no-hitters, his 5,000th K in '89—and Ruben Sierra's 1990s slugfests, though playoffs eluded till the new park's glow. Inaugural glory: April 15, 1972, a 7-0 shutout of the Angels before 20,157 faithful; record roar: 43,857 for a '93 fireworks finale. Beyond blasts, it hosted All-Star tilts in '75 and '86, Freedom Bowls, and nacho-fueled fan frenzies, etching Texas tenacity into MLB lore. Demolished in '94 for The Ballpark in Arlington, its spirit gallops on as the Rangers' gritty genesis—a testament to trailblazing tenacity and timeless Texas twang in America's pastime.