Tag: Pat McKernan

Albuquerque Silvers Continental Basketball Association

Albuquerque Silvers

July 21, 2020

The Albuquerque Silvers were a short-lived Continental Basketball Association team that landed abruptly in this New Mexico city during the winter of 1983. The team moved to the Albuquerque Civic Center in midseason after the club’s original owners stopped paying their bills in Las Vegas and gave up the keys to the team. New local owner Pat McKernan, the president of the Albuquerque Dukes minor league baseball team, immediately hired controversial former University of New Mexico coach Norm Ellenberger to coach the team. Under Ellenberger, the Silver posted the worst record in the CBA in both 1983-84 and 1984-85 before disbanding after two-and-a-half seasons.

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Pittsfield Rangers Eastern League Baseball

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.

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1973 Gastonia Rangers baseball program from the Western Carolinas League

Gastonia Rangers

December 14, 2014

Western Carolinas League (1973-1974) Born: Affiliation change from Gastonia Pirates Moved: 1975 (Anderson Rangers) First Game: April 13, 1973 (W 7-2 @ Spartanburg Phillies) Last

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