North Carolina’s Burlington Rangers were a One-Year Wonder in Minor League Baseball’s Carolina League during the summer of 1972. The team was a Class A farm club of the Texas Rangers, who were playing their debut season in Major League Baseball that summer after relocating from Washington D.C. in late 1971.
The Alamance Senators were a Class A farm club of the American League’s Washington Senators based in Burlington, North Carolina during the late 1960’s. Today, the team is referred to on Baseball Reference and Wikipedia as the “Burlington Senators”, but at the time the team was known locally as “Alamance”, after the North Carolina county in which Burlington sits.
The Lynchburg Rangers were a One-Year Wonder in the Class A Carolina League during the summer of 1975. The Virginia city has been a fixture in the Carolina League since 1966 and played host to nine different Major League parent clubs during that time. It’s likely that no Major League sponsor had a less consequential tenure than the Texas Rangers, who set up shop for one last-place campaign and blew town one day after the 1975 season ended.
Carolina League (1988-1994) Born: 1988 – Affiliation change from Lynchburg Mets Re-Branded: November 1994 (Lynchburg Hillcats) First Game: Last Game: Carolina League Championships: None City
The Rocky Mount Phillies were a Class-A minor league affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies in the mid-1970’s. In their final season, Rocky Mount won the 1975 Carolina League pennant with a 91-51 record. The Rocky Mount Phillies developed over a dozen future Major League players. The most successful was catcher John Stearns, who earned four National League All-Star selections with the New York Mets.
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