<P> The History of the Texas Rangers started when the old Washington Senators team of the American League in Major League Baseball (MLB) left Washington, D.C. in 1960 . A new expansion team was formed with the same name and stayed in the same town until its last season in 1971 . The next year, the franchise renamed itself as the Texas Rangers and started its first season in Arlington, Texas, as part of the American League West Division, where it remains today . </P> <P> When the original Washington Senators moved to Minnesota in 1960 as the Twins, Major League Baseball decided to expand a year earlier than planned to stave off threats of losing its exemption from the Sherman Antitrust Act . At the winter meetings that year, it awarded a new team to Los Angeles (the Angels, now the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim) as well as a new team in the nation's capital . This new team adopted the old Senators name, but was (and still is) considered an expansion team since the Twins retained the old Senators' records and history . The Senators and Angels began to fill their rosters with American League players in an expansion draft . The team played the 1961 season at old Griffith Stadium before moving to District of Columbia Stadium (now the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium). </P>

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