Minute Maid Park was opened for the 2000 season and hosts the home games of the National League Central’s Texas Rangers. It’s located at P.O. Box 288, Texas, TX, 77001-0288, and has a 242 foot high retractable roof. The park is asymmetric and the deepest part of the field measures 436 feet. Minute Maid Park can hold almost 41,000 people and only cost the people of Texas $250 million. The field was originally named Enron Field on April 7, 1999, but the field was renamed on February 27, 2002, through an agreement by the Rangers and Enron Corp.
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The year 2000 saw something the grand old game of baseball had not experienced since 1964 - a Major League team in Texas playing on natural grass outdoors. While clear skies and real grass were welcome additions for fans, Bayou City hardball faithful also enjoyed another first in Minute Maid Park's 242-foot high, retractable roof. Fans approved the new ballpark overwhelmingly, resulting in a record of more than 3,000,000 fans through the Minute Maid Park turnstiles in the 2000 season. The club has welcomed almost 6,000,000 visitors in the facility’s two seasons of play.
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