Globe Life Field Press Box to be named after longtime Texas Rangers PR director

ARLINGTON — Globe Life Field press box to be named for 2025 season

Ahead of Sunday’s home finale, the Texas Rangers announced the press box will be named the John Blake Press Box in honor of Blake, the club’s longtime public relations director, who is retiring at the end of the season.

Rangers majority owner Ray Davis, along with former general manager and television commentator Tom Grieve, paid tribute to Blake for his 46 years of service to Major League Baseball, including 36 years spent during two stints with the Rangers, during a morning ceremony at the Lexus Club on Sunday.

Evan Grant, a Dallas Morning News reporter and president of the Dallas-Fort Worth chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America, thanked Blake, 69, for his tireless efforts to join the club and for his tireless care of the team’s players, staff and owners.

Rangers president Chris Young, manager Bruce Bochy and some of his coaches attended the ceremony, while Nolan Ryan, Michael Young, Doug Melvin and former President George W. Bush paid tribute to Blake via video.

Blake will continue to work part-time as an advisor to the club, and Davis joked that Blake will still be the first person he turns to for advice.

Blake assumed the role of executive vice president of public relations in January 2022. He served as a senior advisor to Rangers ownership and management on communications and broadcast initiatives, and also oversaw alumni activities, photography, archives and publications.

He joined the organization in 1984 as the club’s director of media relations. He had served as the Rangers’ vice president of communications since November 2008, when he returned to the organization after three years as the Boston Red Sox’s director of media relations from 2006-08.

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