Pittsfield Rangers
May 10, 2018
The Pittsfield Rangers were a Class AA Eastern League farm club in Western Massachusetts from 1972 to 1975. The franchise was formerly known as the Pittsfield Senators (1970-1971) but re-branded when their Major League parent club, the Washington Senators, moved west to become the Texas Rangers in the fall of 1971. Future Major League All-Stars that played in Pittsfield during the Rangers era included Roy Howell (’72-’73), Bill Madlock (’72), Jim Sundberg (’73), Roy Smalley (’74) and Len Barker (’75). In 1976, the team changed its name to the Berkshire Brewers after the Milwaukee Brewers replaced Texas as Pittsfield’s parent club.
