Background of Rangers Ballpark in Arlington No other sport in America embraces its history like baseball does. But from the 1960s to the 1980s, modern Major League Baseball stadiums looked more like NASA testing facilities than ballparks. However, movies such as "Eight Men Out" and "Field of Dreams" began a resurgence of the nostalgia of baseball. As new stadiums were built in the 1990s, many architects tried to emulate the older ballparks of the early 20th century.

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