The future of McCoy Stadium itself is in limbo. For a lot of Rhode Islanders, their first experience with professional baseball was taking in a game at McCoy. Many fans, including this writer, have great memories of going to a baseball game at McCoy Stadium. To say that fans in Rhode Island, especially in Pawtucket, were upset by this news would be an understatement. After a lot of red tape and both sides accusing the other of not bargaining in “good faith”, Red Sox ownership (the face of which was Larry Lucchino), decided to move the team to Worcester, Massachusetts.
After a lot of back and forth between Red Sox ownership and the city of Pawtucket, and even the state of Rhode Island becoming involved, the two sides could not come to an agreement on either building the PawSox a new stadium (even if that meant building one in Providence instead of Pawtucket), or updating an aging, yet historical stadium, named McCoy.
