Key Points
- Released June 17, 2026 for $150 (style IQ2946-600)
- Gym Red/Natural/Sport Red Air Max 1 with an aged oversized midsole
- Embossing pulls from charro traditions and papel picado
- Part of Nike and MLB's eight-shoe City Connect Air Max 1 pack
Nike and Major League Baseball keep turning ballpark identity into footwear, and the latest entry leans hard into Texas. The MLB x Nike Air Max 1 City Connect "Texas Rangers" released June 17 for $150, translating the Rangers' Mexican-heritage alternate jersey into an Air Max 1.
What it looks like
The shoe runs a striking red base — Gym Red and Sport Red — with Sail Swooshes and a prominent oversized midsole carrying a deliberately aged finish. Embossed patterns run across the toe box and collar, pulling from Mexican art, charro traditions, and the papel picado motifs featured on the Rangers' City Connect alternate uniform. It carries style code IQ2946-600.
The bigger pack
The Rangers pair is one of eight team-specific Air Max 1s in Nike and MLB's 2026 City Connect run, a series that turns each franchise's alternate-jersey program into a sneaker. It is the same machinery behind the Kansas City Royals release earlier this month — a city-by-city rollout that gives Nike a reason to keep re-coloring the Air Max 1 with built-in regional demand attached to each one.
The read
The Texas version is the most culturally specific of the bunch, and that is its strength. The charro and papel picado detailing is not generic baseball iconography; it is a nod to the Rangers' Mexican-American fan base rendered with enough care to feel like a tribute rather than a costume. At $150 on the most familiar silhouette in Nike's catalog, it is an easy buy for a Rangers fan and a clean Air Max 1 for everyone else. The City Connect program works precisely because it sells both audiences the same shoe.
Source: Sneaker Bar Detroit, Sneaker News
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