SURPRISE, Arizona (Ticker) -- The Texas Rangers and Kansas City Royals are moving to the Cactus League.

The American League teams today signed a letter of intent with the Phoenix suburb of Surprise, Arizona to share a $45 million spring training complex beginning with the 2002 or 2003 season.

Both the Rangers and Royals currently hold spring training in Florida. The Rangers' lease with Port Charlotte, their winter home for 14 years, expires after the 2001 season.

The Royals are scheduled to remain in Baseball City, Florida through the 2002 season, but their lease contains provisions that will allow the team to leave early. Kansas City has had the same spring home for 13 seasons.

Funding for the facility in Surprise would come in large part from the passage of Proposition 302, which calls for the expenditure of $331 million for a stadium for the the NFL's Arizona Cardinals and additional funding for tourism, the Cactus League and youth sports.

Even if the measure is defeated by the voters on November 7, both teams still hope to move to Arizona.

"If the proposition does not pass, we're committed to find ways to make it work," Royals executive vice president Herk Robinson said.

The Cactus League currently has 10 members and in recent years has been recruiting Grapefruit League teams to move their spring facilities west. The most recent addition was the Chicago White Sox in 1998.