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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Sport
Tom Dart

World Series champion Rangers are no longer futility posing as a sports team

The Texas Rangers handled the Arizona Diamondbacks easily to take the World Series
The Texas Rangers handled the Arizona Diamondbacks easily to take the World Series. Photograph: Sean M Haffey/Getty Images

So this is what it feels like. Leaping around the infield, hugging in the dugout, arms aloft, cameras snapping, commemorative T-shirts donned at the speed of a Nathan Eovaldi fastball. Now, finally, the Texas Rangers know.

A World Series replete with rare feats ended with the biggest novelty of all: the Rangers are Major League Baseball’s champions for the first time at the 63rd attempt, a mere 51 years after a franchise that began as the Washington Senators relocated to the Dallas area.

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