The red jerseys will be complemented by cream pants and a red cap with a white block T that harken back to caps from early in the club\u2019s history. As with any City Connect jersey, the details tell a story, in this case, the deep ties between the Lone Star State and Mexico.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe knew that our players had a lot of love for the red. We\u2019ve heard from our fans, and collectively as a front office, we love the red,\u201d said Travis Dillon, the Rangers\u2019 senior vice president of marketing. \u201cAfter telling our origin story for the first one, we felt like whatever we did this time through that, that we wanted to prioritize red as the color.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen, the story that we decided to tell, we wanted the actual red to not only going back to the red jerseys that we\u2019ve had in the past, but doing it in a way that celebrated such an important piece of Mexican history and Mexican culture, cochineal red.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Rangers<\/a> will debut their new City Connects on April 24 against the A\u2019s, three days after San Jacinto Day. The Texian army defeated the Mexican army April 21, 1836, in the Battle of San Jacinto to gain independence.<\/p>\n Texas was admitted to the union Dec. 29, 1845.<\/p>\n