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The cancellation of the 2020 Minor League Baseball season is especially difficult news for Rhode Islanders. This was supposed to be the Pawtucket Red Sox’ last season at McCoy Stadium before moving to Worcester, Massachusetts. “I think we all held out hope that we could see PawSox baseball this year,” said Dr. Charles Steinberg, the team’s president. In 2021, the…

There will not be a 2020 Minor League Baseball season, an especially tough blow for the community set to say goodbye to the Pawtucket Red Sox.

The construction of a minor league ball park, hotel, parking garage, office space and other development has been given the green light by a Massachusetts city planning board. The Telegram & Gazette reports that the Worcester Planning Board voted Wednesday to give definitive site approval to the Polar Park project and associated private development.

Attendance at Pawtucket Red Sox games has dropped as the team prepares to depart Rhode Island for Massachusetts. The Boston Globe reports the PawSox are averaging just 5,126 fans a game. The team averaged more than 9,500 fans a game in 2005. It’s the third-lowest attendance in the International League.

Officials are set to break ground for Polar Park, which will be the new home of the Red Sox’s Triple-A affiliate in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Worcester officials are ready to break ground on a stadium for the Red Sox’s Triple-A affiliate, more than a year after it was announced that the minor-league team would move to Massachusetts. The ceremonial groundbreaking for the multi-million dollar Polar Park took place Thursday, marking a historic moment for the city.

The Pawtucket Red Sox will soon be a Worcester team and with a new location comes the possibility of a new name. The team reportedly trademarked three names that may be used after their move, according to WJAR. Although no official name has been chosen, these are the names that have so far been trademarked: Wicked Worms, Ruby Legs and...

Rhode Island officials are pondering the future of a city-owned stadium now that the minor league Pawtucket Red Sox have announced they intend to leave for Massachusetts.

The Pawtucket Red Sox will move to Worcester, Massachusetts, in 2021.

The city of Worcester and the Pawtucket Red Sox announced Friday they have a letter of intent to build a new ballpark in the city’s Canal District and the team will commence playing there in 2021.

A Rhode Island city official wants to bring the Pawtucket Red Sox to the city.