The Hickory Crawdads are about to have a new owner.
According to a published report in the HICKORY DAILY RECORD, the Texas Rangers are in the process of finalizing a sale to New York-based Diamond Baseball Holdings.
Diamond Baseball established a limited liability company in North Carolina called DBH Hickory on March 31, according to documents filed on the N.C. Secretary of State’s website.
The new owners are not expected to change how the team operates with both the Rangers and Diamond Baseball committed to keeping the team in Hickory according to the report.
The sale comes nearly six years after the Rangers purchased the Crawdads in 2017.
The Crawdads have been part of Hickory for 30 years. Don Beaver and four other area businessmen partnered to buy the Gastonia Rangers and bring the team to Hickory in the early 1990s.
The team, which was previously affiliated with the Chicago White Sox and Pittsburgh Pirates, won South Atlantic League titles in 2002, 2004 and 2015.