The sixtieth annual All-Star game, July 11, marks the midpoint of the baseball season. Here’s how some perennial All-Stars have fared against the Texas Rangers through 1988.
Player Career Against Average Rangers
Don
Mattingly .327 361
Yankees
Hit .378 vs. Texas in 1988; five homers in 51 aT-bats in 1987.
Cal Ripken
Jr. .280 .313
Orioles
Hit for cycle (single, double, triple, homer) vs. Texas 5/6/84.
Reggie
Jackson .262 .274
A’s, Orioles,
Yankees,
Angels
(retired)
Hit 45 of his 563 homers vs.Texas-most by any Rangeropponent.
Rod Carew .328 .293
Twins,
Angels
(retired)
Only 176 of his 3,053 hits vs.Texas.
Carlton
Fisk .270 .220
Red Sox,
White Sox
Hit .063 vs. Texas in ’88; only 19 of 323 lifetime homers against Texas.
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