Cheers to the WORLD SERIES 2023 CHAMPIONS, THE TEXAS RANGERS!!!
Apologies for not publishing this ‘on time’ yesterday. I hope you will forgive me.
When the home team wins a tremendous sports competition, people take notice. I watched the last few games before the Series began, and all but one of the games during the Series. Yesterday, I bundled up and went to the AT&T Discovery District to watch the massive parade of 250,000+ fans to celebrate our home team.
The Texas Rangers (from wiki): The franchise was established in 1961, as the Washington Senators, an expansion team awarded to Washington, D.C., after the city’s first AL ballclub, the second Washington Senators, relocated to Minnesota and became the Twins (the original Washington Senators played primarily in the National League during the 1890s). After the 1971 season, the new Senators relocated to Arlington and debuted as the Rangers the following spring.
The MVP of the game (from wiki):
The Willie Mays World Series Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award is given to the Major League Baseball(MLB) player deemed to have the most impact on his team’s performance in the World Series, which is the final round of the MLB postseason. The award was first presented in 1955 as the SPORT Magazine Award, but is now decided during the final game of the Series by a committee of reporters and officials present at the game.
On September 29, 2017, it was renamed in honor of Willie Mays in remembrance of the 63rd anniversary of The Catch, which occurred the year before the award’s debut; Mays never won the award himself.
Pitchers have been named Series MVP twenty-nine (29) times; four of them were relief pitchers. Twelve of the first fourteen World Series MVPs were won by pitchers; from 1969 until 1986, the proportion of pitcher MVPs declined—Rollie Fingers (1974) and Bret Saberhagen (1985) were the only two pitchers to win the award in this period. From 1987 until 1991, all of the World Series MVPs were pitchers, and, since 1995, pitchers have won the award nine times. The most recent winner is Texas Rangers shortstop Corey Seager, who won the award in 2023.
The Commissioner’s Trophy (from wiki): The Commissioner’s Trophy is a trophy presented each year by the Commissioner of Baseball to Major League Baseball’s (MLB) World Series champion. The trophy depicts flags representing each team in Major League Baseball. It is the only championship trophy of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada in North America that is not named after a particular person…
Pictured above: the Team with Adolis Garcia holding the Trophy and Corey Seager holding the Trophy.
This blogger-sports fan is delighted for our City and this Team. For more info on the Team, check out #texasrangers and #goandtakeit. My father, a lifelong baseball fan, is dancing happily in heaven for his Rangers. If baseball isn’t your thing, that’s cool. The spirit is contagious: love, FUN, sportsmanship. talent, skill, hard work, and smiles at the end.
Aloha,
Denise
