Global Swings & Misses: How the Texas Rangers Became a $1.2 Billion Mirror to World Disorder
From an altitude of 37,000 feet somewhere over the mid-Atlantic, the phrase “Texas Rangers” sounds less like a baseball franchise and more like a geopolitical Rorschach test. To the Japanese businessman nursing a second sake beside me, it evokes memories of the 2010 World Series—his first live game at Tokyo Dome, where the only thing…