Pittsfield already had a beautiful vintage baseball park named Wahconah Park (built
in 1919) which was perfect for the NECBL. It had been used as a Single-A ballpark
by the Houston Astros and New York Mets up until 2001 but those teams brand
new ballparks in Troy and Brooklyn New York. The Can-Am League then came in
for a few seasons afterwards, but was now vacant for over a year, Dan Duquette
set about buying an NECBL team and moving it to Pittsfield's Wahconah Park,
which would set up a great new baseball rivalry in his hometown state of Massachusetts. |