Boston Globe: PawSox could leave the state

DESPITE HIS DECADES as a major league baseball executive, Pawtucket Red Sox Chairman Larry Lucchino may be facing his most challenging job yet: convincing the voters of Rhode Island to help the PawSox build a new stadium. / PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO
DESPITE HIS DECADES as a major league baseball executive, Pawtucket Red Sox Chairman Larry Lucchino may be facing his most challenging job yet: convincing the voters of Rhode Island to help the PawSox build a new stadium. / PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

PAWTUCKET – The Pawtucket Red Sox could soon be shopping for a new home the Boston Globe reported on Tuesday. While the article didn’t name where the PawSox may end up, the Globe piece explores the political mine traps that have arisen since the 38 Studios debacle and the PawSox’s failed attempt to move to Providence.

On one side, the article frames Larry Lucchino as a ballpark-designing maestro up against a skeptical state, while on the other, the reality that the American public is growing tired of paying for sports teams’ stadiums.

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Pawtucket Mayor Donald R. Grebien is quoted saying that if Rhode Island doesn’t act to keep the team in Pawtucket, then it will be sorry when the economic development and revenue of the team leave the state.

Chris Bergenheim is the PBN web editor.

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