MLB Rangers Planning To Close Museum To Free Up Rental Space
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Rangers Plan To Close Museum
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MLB Rangers Owner Tom Hicks "plans to shutter" the Legends of the Game Baseball Museum at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington at the end of the season as part of the team's plans to "free up more rental space for meetings and special events," according to Robert Cadwallader of the FT. WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM. The team plans to turn the second and third floors of the three-story museum "into larger meeting and hospitality spaces to take advantage of increased interest in the entertainment district with the opening of Cowboys Stadium." The first floor will be dedicated to the Rangers HOF "and other exhibits about the team." Rangers Exec VP/Communications John Blake said that the new attraction is "expected to be open to the public for free during home baseball games as soon as the 2010 season." Blake noted that the museum, which opened in '95, "has suffered from dwindling attendance." Blake: "We don't have a lot of visitors that just come into the museum. After 15 years, it's time to retool and use the space in a more functional way." But museum tour guide Darwin Day said the Rangers have "never sponsored the thing on the radio," and game announcers "never talk about the Legends of the Game Museum; they don't pitch it." Day: "Every bottom-line dollar we make goes to the Rangers, so why not pitch it?" Day is planning a demonstration at 4:00pm CT Saturday in front of the museum before the team's game against the Angels in hopes that Hicks "will rethink his plans" (FT. WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM, 9/16).
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