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B Y T H E N U M B E R S:
The Pawtucket Red Sox
By Lou Papineau
The Pawtucket Red Sox are celebrating fifty years at McCoy Stadium. But, alas, this season is also their
last hurrah at the beloved ballpark. A series of foiled plans — moving the team to Providence; building a new
facility near Slater Mill — led to the announcement that the franchise would relocate to Worcester, Massachusetts,
in 2021. To commemorate the PawSox’s five-decade run, we’ve compiled some notable numbers about our beloved
field of dreams. The season opens on April 9 and the final game will be on September 7. pawsox.com
July 4, 1942
1970
The Pawtucket Red Sox debut
as Boston’s AA affiliate and
move up to Triple-A in 1973.
$2.50
Cost of a box seat ticket in 1973;
they go for $14 and $13 this year.
McCoy Stadium opens; in 1946, it
is officially completed, dedicated
and named for Pawtucket Mayor
Thomas P. McCoy and becomes the
home of the Pawtucket Slaters (the
Class B affiliate of the Boston
Braves) from 1946 to 1949.
48–91 and 85–58
Worst and best win-loss records,
in the 1985 and 2008 seasons, respectively.
87,850
Number of hot dogs
sold at McCoy in 2019.
688,421
Best-ever season attendance,
in 2005.
11,982
18,237,605
Largest crowd at McCoy, for a
game vs. the Lehigh Valley
IronPigs on April 17, 2009.
Total attendance from
1970 to 2019.
3
33
Number of innings in the longest game in
professional baseball history, played at
McCoy in 1981 vs. the Rochester Red
Wings on April 18 (32 innings, eight hours
and seven minutes, from 8:02 p.m. to 4:09
a.m.) and June 23 (one inning, 18 minutes).
Other stats: the game has 882 pitches, 60
strikeouts, 219 at-bats and 39 hits; 1,740
attend in April (19 diehards are in the
stands when the game is suspended);
5,765 witness the final inning. The
PawSox win with a score of 3–2.
PawSox alumni who have been
inducted into the National
Baseball Hall of Fame in
Cooperstown, New York:
Carlton Fisk, Wade Boggs
and Jim Rice.
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