The canopy would have cost at least $80 million, less than 10 percent of the price of the new stadium proposed by the city of Arlington and the Rangers.

But the canopy would lower the temperature in the stadium by only a few degrees, according to Pat Tangen, the principal at Populous, the Kansas City, Mo., architecture firm that investigated the feasibility of the canopy.

"The canopy would change the entire character of Globe Life Park," Tangen told the Star-Telegram.

Additionally, it would have taken three years to add on to Globe Life Park. The new stadium is scheduled to open in April 2021.

Populous was hired by the owners of the Rangers to look into the canopy in 2014. They worked with two Dallas firms, Walter P. Moore structural engineering and Manhattan Construction, on the study, according to the Star-Telegram.

Eventually they found that the canopy would be able to shade most of the fans in the stadium, but certain pockets would inevitably be exposed to the sun.

"The poor people that get absolutely blasted in left field, there is no way I can fix that," Tangen told the Star-Telegram.