World Series champion Rangers are no longer futility posing as a sports team

Texas were not always the best team in baseball this season but with players like the explosive Corey Seager at their disposal they were capable of beating anyone

So this is what it feels like. Leaping around the infield, hugging in the dugout, arms aloft, cameras snapping, commemorative T-shirts donned at the speed of a Nathan Eovaldi fastball. Now, finally, the Texas Rangers know.

A World Series replete with rare feats ended with the biggest novelty of all: the Rangers are Major League Baseball's champions for the first time at the 63rd attempt, a mere 51 years after a franchise that began as the Washington Senators relocated to the Dallas area.