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Thus, the final game contested by the PawSox at McCoy Stadium was the team's last game of the 2019 International League season, a 5–4 home victory over the Lehigh Valley IronPigs in 10 innings, played on September 2, 2019. [12] During the 2020 Major League Baseball season, McCoy Stadium served as the alternate training site for the Boston Red ...
The first team to be dubbed the Pawtucket Red Sox debuted at McCoy Stadium in 1970 as a member of the Double-A Eastern League. The franchise, owned by former Major League shortstop Joe Buzas, had spent the previous five seasons (1965–69) as the Pittsfield Red Sox after playing in four different Pennsylvania cities—Allentown, Johnstown, York and Reading—over seven years (1958–64).
The game lasted 33 innings, with 8 hours and 25 minutes of playing time. The first 32 innings were played overnight from April 18–19, 1981, at McCoy Stadium in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and the tie-breaking 33rd inning was played June 23, 1981. Pawtucket won the game, 3–2.
The 42 4-by-8-foot plywood panels painted by Teyo Hauser include the likes of Roger Clemens, Wade Boggs, Jim Rice, Fred Lynn and Oil Can Boyd.
Pawtucket schools were granted control of the stadium site, where a new high school is planned. But what about a billionaire's dream of saving McCoy?
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McCoy Stadium, named in honor of Thomas P. McCoy, mayor of Pawtucket from 1936 to 1945, was dedicated just in time for the return of professional baseball in 1946 as the Pawtucket Slaters of the Class B New England League, an affiliate of the Boston Braves of the National League, debuted.
After a visit to Rhode Island, Stefan Soloviev wants to save McCoy Stadium and bring back baseball. With Pawtucket's current plans, would that idea work?