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He divides the book into ten sections, and each represents a different pitch. Its nice to see that the texas rangers donot have to take a back seat to the arlingtonerdallas cowboys in august this year as has been the case in the past. Biographies and stories of 20th century texas rangers this page is a collection of articles and pages about texas rangers who served in the 20th century 19001999. With billy martin, whitey herzog and the worst baseball team in historythe 19731975 texas rangers by mike shropshire. Whitey herzog and the worst baseball team in history the 19731975 texas rangers. The series follows rusty shannon, who joins the texas rangers following a tragedy, and andy pickard, a man rescued by rusty from a comache war party.
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