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Rangers make Titanic gesture

By Jim Caple
ESPN.com

Tuesday, January 27, 2004

Fear not. We may have lost Captain Kangaroo last week but we gained Cap'n A-Rod. Less than two months after he tried to orchestrate a trade to the Boston Red Sox, Alex Rodriguez was named the Texas Rangers team captain Sunday. The Rangers announced the captaincy at a news conference in which Rodriguez, owner Tom Hicks, general manager John Hart and manager Buck Showalter all wore tuxedos. That's right, tuxedos. And no, I'm not making that up. In what is already the prohibitive favorite for ...

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