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TCU opener pushed Rangers' Banister past his bedtime

BY JEFF WILSON
jwilson@star-telegram.com

SURPRISE, ARIZ. – How does a major-league manager spend part of his Friday night? Watching college baseball, of course.

That's not always the case for Texas Rangers manager Jeff Banister, but he and third-base coach Tony Beasley made the short drive to Phoenix to watch the TCU baseball team play its season opener against Grand Canyon.

They weren't around for the Horned Frogs' three-run ninth-inning rally en route to a 3-2 victory; anything after 8 p.m. is past Banister's spring bedtime. But TCU coach Jim Schlossnagle sent a text to tell Banister what happened after he left following the top of the sixth inning.

Read more at http://www.star-telegram.com/sports/mlb/texas-rangers/article200716709.html
 
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