The Elmore Sports Group has announced plans to relocate the Triple-A Colorado Springs Sky Sox to San Antonio for the 2019 season.
The Elmore Sports Group said on Wednesday it is responding to "pressure from within Major League Baseball" and moving the franchise.
The short season Rookie-Level "Helena Brewers" will be relocated from Montana to Colorado Springs and will take over the "Sky Sox" name.
The move is part of a realignment of several Elmore-owned clubs that will also see the current Double-A San Antonio Missions club move to a new ballpark in Amarillo, Texas.
Woodland Park's little league team, the Mustang Rockies, got to have batting practice at Sky Sox Stadium on Saturday, June 17.
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The Colorado Springs franchise built a new ballpark in 1988 with a capacity of 8,500 fans.
The Double-A franchise now playing as the San Antonio Missions will become the latest addition to the Elmore Sports Group family as the Amarillo Professional Baseball Club, which will return affiliated professional baseball to Amarillo for the first time since 1982.
The Rangers have worked with the Elmore group for more than a year in engineering the move.
The three teams relocations await approval by the Pioneer Baseball League, the Texas League, the Pacific Coast League, the President of Minor League Baseball and the review of Baseball Office of the Commissioner, according to the press release.
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