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If you grew up in Rhode Island I’m sure this abandoned baseball stadium looks very familiar to you, because this is a special one. Welcome to the McCoy Stadium.
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You’re looking at what was once a massive social center in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The home of a beloved baseball team - the minor league affiliate of THE Boston Red Sox actually. This is also a place that I went to every summer. Do you have any idea how many little baseball caps of ice cream I ate here? Yeah, like I don’t know 5,000.
Today, the field, stands, and concessions all sit abandoned, and the stadium’s eventual demolition is looming in the future.
On the afternoon of November 3, 1940, Mayor McCoy laid the foundation cornerstone. But I like to imagine he didn’t lay it but threw it like a first pitch.
Known at first as Pawtucket Stadium, it was completed in 1942, and in 1946 was officially named in honor of Mayor McCoy, who had died in August 1945. One pretty cool footnote in the history here is that On October 30, 1944, Senator and Vice-Presidential candidate Harry S. Truman addressed a Democratic rally at the stadium, in support of re-electing President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The Pawtucket Slaters, a Class B affiliate of the Boston Braves, was the first team to call McCoy Stadium home. The Slaters would play for only four seasons in the New England League…Then after a gap of 16 years…. McCoy became home of the Pawtucket Indians for only 2 years, who competed at the Double-A level as an affiliate of the Cleveland Indians.
BUT THEN, in 1969, the Boston Red Sox had their Eastern League affiliate, the Pittsfield Red Sox of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, play at McCoy Stadium. Attendance was huge, and a year later the Pittsfield Red Sox relocated here and became the Pawtucket Red Sox, known lovingly by the community and fans as the PAWSOX.
Through the years McCoy stadium became more family friendly, more iconic, and underwent several updates and renovations. This was thanks to owner Ben Mondor, a Rhode Island Saint. He was generous, cared for the community, and above all, loved the team.
Under his ownership, attendance here increased from 70,000 in 1977 to over 600,000 annually during the 2000s. That’s a lot of hot dogs!
The PawSox brought four championship titles to McCoy Stadium and Pawtucket, winning the Governors' Cup in 1973, 1984, 2012, and 2014.
But easily, the most notable thing to happen here was the longest game in professional baseball history. On April 18th, 1981 a game between the Pawtucket Red Sox and Rochester Red Wings went for 33 innings over 8 hours and 25 minutes. The final, 33rd inning was eventually played on June 23rd, with the Pawsox winning 3-2 after just 18 minutes.
With a renovation of McCoy Stadium costing an estimated 70 million dollars, and no prospects of bringing baseball back here, it seems like this is the end of the baseball era in Pawtucket. But it’s not the end of this site, as new development plans are already underway.
The city of Pawtucket plans to demolish McCoy Stadium to make way for a new high school serving all students in the the city, replacing the two nearly 100 year old high schools currently in use.
So while it’s not baseball, and no one will be walking around with pawsox ice cream cups, it’s still a positive move, and it means that McCoy won’t become an abandoned relic like so many other places in Rhode Island. Will I miss this place? Absolutely. Will I ever prefer the name WOOSOX over the Pawsox? Probably not but it IS really fun to say.
I’m just glad there’s going to be a relatively happy ending here after the decades of memories McCoy Stadium has brought all of us, all of those worry-free golden summer nights sitting in the stands ….and of course the WILD fourth of July fireworks shows. So let’s all raise a hotdog, or 5000 to McCoy Stadium, Paws and Sox, and our guy Ben Mondor.
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@Warthog32695 Год назад

This one hurts. So many games, so many firework shows all very good memories of McCoy growing up for me. My grandmother lived within walking distance when I was younger

@RadSense Год назад

Same dude! I must've went so many times!

@tylerjoseph8243 Год назад

This one hurt me as well. I lived in CT but spent the summers in Cumberland/Pawtucket with my grandparents. Spent many nights at this stadium , saw many firework shows and so many red sox greats play here, this stadium is what sparked my love for baseball , my grandfather loved the red sox and the paw sox he was very proud to be from the area and a proud red sox fan. He passed away this January and seeing this kills me. I want to get a paw sox tattoo in memory of him.

@davelev4836 Год назад

My grandmother had a picture of McCoy being built. Her house was right next to the linen company. House is no longer their either.

@GoCeltics734 Год назад

Ben Mondor was the greatest owner in pro sports. In 35 years, he never raised ticket prices. Even in 2015, you could sit front row for $14 a seat and grandstand seats were $6. The man truly didn't care about making a dime from the team and purely loved baseball

@CatholicTraditional Год назад

Went to McCoy in 2002 with Scouts, we just bought $8 GA tickets at the gate after caravanning! Wonderful day! Park was coming off 1999 renovation.

@lja64 Год назад

This brought back so many memories. I grew up in Pawtucket, and residents often got free tickets. My friends and I would go all the time, we also loved seeing the Boston RedSox rehab there and practice......wieners from the Right Spot were always amazing. Also we always watched the 4th of July fireworks from there. So many of us also first time behind the wheel was in the McKoy parking lot.

@timhowland7103 6 дней назад

Growing up, my parents couldn't (wouldn't?) afford Boston Red Sox tickets, so we spent our summer nights here. Such fond memories. Thank you for sharing your memories with us.

@dsysak Год назад

I’m from Pawtucket and this saddens me. I even went to one of the schools being replaced by the future school planned to be built which sort of saddens me more. There were also many thanksgiving day high school rivalry games played here between my Tolman Tigers and St Raphael Academy….technically games even though St Rays always creamed us. Thanks for at least preserving the memories digitally. Hopefully they salvage the portrait murals and the 33 inning score board mural somehow.

@user-qh4sn9ge6t Год назад

I was a Tolman Tiger and graduated in 1970. The Saints/Tiger games were the best.

@jamesl2335 Год назад

There were plenty of years that tolman creamed saints too!

@EdHutton Год назад

I grew up just a short walk from McCoy. I saw every Major League Red Sox great from the 60's and 70's at McCoy. I can't believe the city let the PawSox get away! I have so many stories about this place, I could write paragraphs.

@meycoe Год назад

they should have coughed up the dough at any price

@chasj99 2 месяца назад

I grew up living about 8 blocks from mccoy. Used to go catch home run balls during batting practice and sell them back to the stadium for 50 cents. Late 70’s. We also went to the 33 inning game when it was rescheduled. First time that stadium was full. So many tv trucks and press. Really good memories. Saw so many greats come through there. Especially jim rice and fred lynn in 1974. I was 6😂

@noreaster08 Год назад

My dad said he was a night foreman when the WPA was building the stadium and the amount of cement poured day and nigh into the swamp land on which it was built was incredible also that the structure itself was supported by rail road rails.

@johnmagus6341 Год назад

I swear, I've heard that same story.

@christopherderoy3153 2 дня назад

Talkin baseball would blare over the loud speakers! The Seven Dwarfs HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGH HOOOOOO as the grounds crew did the between inning work. So many good memories and absolutely gorgeous sunsets taken in here. (For some reason, McCoy always had the most gorgeous sunsets) Grew up where from my bedroom you could see the lights of the stadium.

@paulriley2730 Год назад

in 1984 I worked for the Pawtucket Red Sox in the front office as a low level employee from January until September. The stadium and this video brings back fond memories of that year

@mrbob8618 Месяц назад

@machinesofgod Год назад

I'm from CA and I was very fortunate to visit this ballpark in 2012 while I was training in Groton, CT. I thought the stadium was awesome and got to see Mark Prior pitch.

@bingbong1222 Год назад

Born, raised and never left South Kingstown and inherited my childhood home recently where I currently live (age 33). I grew up with baseball and probably went to 100+ games throughout my lifetime. Every year me and my dad (and sometimes mom 😂) would go to Pawtucket and enjoy everything we could in the area.... I've never been anymore upset when I first heard the rumors that the pawsox were going to be moving out of state....It still bothers me to this day and everyone I know. Whoever let this happen really dropped the ball on this one and I don't think I'll ever get over it. Edit - Love your videos bro. Been spreading your name around with people I know. Always love when I get a notification saying you dropped something. Keep up the good work man!!

@meycoe Год назад

you are so right! we have lost the Massachusetts/ RI connection with this catastrophe

@daveorama07 Год назад

Mr Mondor kept the prices crazy low so families could go. The place was at least half kids, you could hear it in every cheer. Such a shame that the greed of the Sox owners had to ruin it. It was packed all the time, had great fireworks shows, camp outs on the grass for Scouts. Every Sunday any kid could go down after the game and run the bases. So many great memories there, thank you Mr Mondor!

@jc1251968 Год назад

From the time Ben Mondor bought the team, til the year he past away, ticket prices were raised 3 times. I believe a GA ticket in the 70's was $4 and in 2009 you were paying $7. Once good old Larry took over by 2019 the GA ticket $10,with a senior still being I think $7

@hecantslay Год назад

as someone who grew up going to pawsox games, and not following sports sense 2015, this video hurts to see but brings back so many great memories, thank you for this video so we will have this to help us remember one of the places that we went to so many times as a kid

@SombraPiloto Год назад

The reminiscing in this video gives me flashbacks to childhood trips with my dad to Bristol Red Sox games at Muzzy Field in Bristol CT. I was today years old when I found out that the BriSox actually began as the Eastern League Pawtucket Red Sox before they left McCoy Field for Bristol in 1973.

@Deadbuck73 Год назад

My time was relatively short in Pawtucket. About the last 15 years or so. Took the kids to many games. It was so much better than going to Boston. It was a less than an hour ride for us. I’ll never go to Worcester… Thank you for painting as nice a picture as you could for the future. Best wishes to Pawtucket. Thank You for all the great memories.

@rosykindbunny1313 Год назад

I used to go to Paw Sox games all the time as a little kid. It was a bit of a drive, but it was worth it. One time I got to run around the bases in a mini mascot outfit. It was awesome.

@roadweary5252 Год назад

My father took me there many times in the 80’s when he lived in Woonsocket. Very sad to see the stadium in this shape…

@TheRklucznik Год назад

I was a kid in RI in the 70s. We would get free Pawsox tickets from Allie”s donuts in Norrth Kingston, RI. My mom would drop my two brothers and myself off at the park and give us a dime to phone home when the game was over. We spent many days at the park seeing such Red Sox greats as: Carlton Fisk, Jim Rice, Fred Lynn, to name just a few. Such wonderful memories. Sad to see the team leave Pawtucket

@robsmith6835 Год назад

What a great video.... thank u for sharing it. As a huge baseball fan and a redsox fan since 1984 this video has a ton of meaning for me. My dad took me to this stadium once as a kid as he wanted to show me the Sox minor league team and I still remember that day. As today I'm a 47 year old and have 2 sons I've taken them both to Fenway but sadly not to here. Thank u again for honoring such a great stadium and a huge part of baseball history.

@flaviuskern225 Год назад

Bunker Hill 👍🏼

@user-vc6yc6uq2r Год назад

An honorable man named Ben made this place great again. Greed turned it into this😢

@jchristopher1762 Год назад

Back when I went to school in the Boston area, I once saw the Boston Red Sox play an afternoon game. When the game was over, I still needed to see more baseball, so I raced down to Pawtucket to see the PawSox play a night game. What a great day!!

@mikez8277 29 дней назад

I live in Rochester and that game is a big piece of history. I honestly didn’t realize they had moved but that makes me sad, they were one of the memorable teams that the red wings played

@christopherbarney8424 Год назад

My father took my brother and I to the Redwings game in 81. I was 6 and my brother was 4. My father had us leave in the 8th inning to beat traffic, and I still remember how upset I was with him when my Grandmother told us the game was still going while Jason and I were both taking a bath in the tub! I went to Baseball camp at McCoy for 3 years, and sleeping out on the field was the coolest thing in my world. I remember getting a stadium gym bag, and taking it with me Everywhere until it fell apart from wear and tear. The last game I saw at McCoy was in 2007, when I came back to R.I. to bury my Grandfather. Clay Bucholz pitched a gem, and I ate roughly a dozen NY system weiners before heading back to SF. Your video really brought these memories back for me, so thank you my brother from the state that is neither Road nor Island! It's awful misty up in here now! Respect.

@ospina93 Год назад

I’ve lived in RI for over 10 years and most of that was in Pawtucket, I attended a game back in my Jr high days when I went to the school across the street! I had no idea of half of this history. Thank you!

@crazybustah Год назад

I lived within walking distance, and sat in my driveway every fourth of july to watch the fireworks at mccoy. Rip

@ChrisRobertsDotName Год назад

Going to PawSox games with my grandfather is one of my favorite childhood memories. Was hoping to fly back for a game during their last season in Pawtucket, but COVID botched those plans. Great (but sad) video!

@elvarchris481 Месяц назад

So much nostalgia for me going there when I was a kid in the 2000's. I remember my elementary school would do a whole school field trip to the stadium at the start of the baseball season. I remember how cheap those tickets were when I was little. 7 dollars it not mistaken? Was also the time I got my first catch of a homerun. Good times... 🙂

@ELMS Год назад

Just excellent, Jason. I relate. I used to take my son to see the AAA Edmonton Trappers until they were bought by Nolan Ryan and moved to Texas. It’s such a personal loss.

@RadSense Год назад

This is such a good documentary, in one of the zoom out shots i can see my grandfathers house, he was the one that took me to most games. The fireworks, the food, the longest game in history, there was just so much there. I was really sad when it shut down, especially because there was no longer a 4th of July fireworks show. Really sad to see.

@kevangelinem1651 4 месяца назад

Living in RI really saddens me. I really thought I would be able to take my son there one day! You have done great work making these videos to share with everyone!

@Peter_From_Lowell Год назад

I'm from Lowell, MA and I spent all of my childhood at McCoy Stadium. I went to a bar named Mai Tai's in Worcester this past weekend, and right beside it is Polar Park. I told my friends eventually I will make it to a game. It still bothers me that they moved to Worcester. I wanted to see just one more game at McCoy, but Covid ruined it. I remember as a kid walking up the ramp seeing the murals on the wall, by the end could recite every player. I wish the PawSox were never sold to that weasel Larry Lucchino. He has the face you would love to just punch. Thank You for this great video, I didn't know who McCoy was.

@willisapril Год назад

I now prefer going to Polar Park than Fenway now such a great experience. I met Larry a few times and he is a good guy. He used to be with Maria Shriver over fourty years ago but left him for a musclehead body builder. Larry gave Rhode Island a chance to keep them but they didn't want them and Massachusetts did.

@dg321_ Год назад

Long live the Lowell Spinners

@CatholicTraditional Год назад

@@willisapril I aways thought Lucchino’s purchase of the AAA Sox was a demotion! Things have changed, as they’re actually owned by the big club and not just an affiliate. The Commissioner of Baseball now is in charge of the minors.

@willisapril Год назад

@@CatholicTraditional Larry is the majority owner of the team. The Crowley family who own Polar Beverages, and Wachusett Mountain are minority owners. John Henry and To Werner are also minority owners as well.

@amandab116 Год назад

This one hurts the most.

@RESTORATIONRESCUE Год назад

My First professional baseball game as a child was at McCoy. I loved that place and would go any chance I could. Great experience. So Sad that the PawSox moved to Worcester

@laurencehebert4880 Год назад

Thank you Jason for sharing this gem of a stadium. It still makes me so sad and really pisses me off. I grew up in Worcester county and went to the Paw Sox every year for decades. Hell will freeze over before I step into the Poo Sox stadium!

@ckywizard Год назад

Use to love walking from central falls to McCoy in the summer. Pawsox for life!

@marciaalinback8745 Год назад

Wonderful walk down memory lane! Thank you!

@jeffreym.keilen1095 5 месяцев назад

When I was a Cub Master, my pack took in Scout night. We took part in the flag cerimony on the field. Big Pappi played that night. After the game, we camped out on the field. This was probally around 2008. Good memories.

@HillHunterME Год назад

I grew up in Pawtucket and would frequently attend McCoy Stadium. WOW, what a shame! So many memories!

@Undyingcarp Год назад

I’ve been to that stadium several times before, it was always my favorite. It was sad when it shut down, which is why I was so happy when I went to Fenway Park not long ago and saw the Red Sox go against Seattle

@andrewfallon7963 Год назад

I slept on the field once as a cub scout. It was a lot of fun.

@MassachusettsTrainVideos1136 Год назад

I did too

@tfabrizio623 Год назад

I have so many fond memories at McCoy. As many were, I was heartbroken when they moved. The owners of the Red Sox made me realize I was just rooting for a t-shirt. They don’t give a damn about the fans or heritage. After 30 years of being a die hard Red Sox fan… I am without a team. I do, however, have one team I will no longer ever spend a dime on. Larry’s Red Sox.

@dff701 Год назад

I miss baseball in RI. great job on presenting this.

@ianchasenicholsart Год назад

I saw my first game there when I was very young. My Dad took my brother and I to see a young Deion Sanders coming up for the Yankees. I saw a lot more games there over the years, with a lot more great players, and I'm really gong to miss going there.

@SizeSuper Год назад

I’m a Tigers fan, but appreciate the loyalty of Red Sox fans in New England, both at the major and minor league levels. Outstanding video

@NickP1018_ Год назад

Remember everyone, July 3rd they are doing a send off for the stadium. Be sure to go!

@nolanjordan1930 Год назад

I was fortunate enough to attend my one and only game here in July 2019. Without knowing, that was less than two months before their last game at McCoy Stadium. 2020 was suppose to be their last season there until Covid hit. My family used to live in the area and would go to games every once in a while

@frankb5693 Год назад

Great video Jason, you are a master history/storyteller!

@That1slywolf 10 месяцев назад

I saw Bob Dylan play here when i was very young under 10 was a very cool time

@geophizz Год назад

Excellent video! I really miss the Pawsox. The stadium was easy to get to, there really wasn't a bad seat in the house and it was pure baseball as it is meant to be. McCoy is a great place to watch a game. I've been to a several of the newer statiums, and all of them were strerile compared to McCoy. I had Pawsox season tickets during the 90's, and Ben Mondor would stand outside the gates every game greeting fans, and he would also man the grills, cooking fresh burgers along the third base sidelines (before the rennovations moved it to the first base side). He hosted a lot of community events and in my mind he was the best owner in all of baseball. They also swapped the dugouts, so the home duguout was on the third base side. That was because the setting sun would bake and blind the players on the first base bench. The Pawsox players would be enjoying the game from the comfortable shaded side

@jeffreynobile2335 Год назад

The best and saddest video yet.

@austin5019 Год назад

What a nice video!!! I remember going to many Pawsox games, especially in 2019!!! It is something I will never forget!!!

@1985_Honda_CRX_Si Месяц назад

I remember going to mccoy on a school trip back in 2019 :)

@anthonyelwick3600 Год назад

I never went to rhode island till I was in my late 20s first fit a trucking company then as an Amtrak employee. I have a love for rhode island and especially Providence.

@muggsyaxton8085 Год назад

I went to high school in Providence and look back fondly on those days. Our school was a block away from Thayer Street, and I can't imagine many other kids having so many great places to grab lunch or an early dinner before basketball or baseball practice. Oh, and all the great music stores... sigh. Good times.

@Boredalec777 Год назад

I miss McCoy always lived near it and on game night you could hear the energy, the crack of the bats, Boos and cheers. I miss it a lot also glad the helmet sundaes are loved by others.

@Boredalec777 Год назад

will you cover the final firework show ?

@jmac03191961 Год назад

I loved going there from Massachusetts once or twice a year

@jgedwardsv Год назад

When Larry Lucchino and his group came to the Newport Chamber Board (which I was on at the time) they said definitively they wanted to stay in Pawtucket. They lied and I'll never forget it. Like others, so many good memories, including seeing Jose Canseco play here.

@treecavecreative1581 Год назад

Really special installment Jason-well done. Thanks for one last memory of McCoy. #teammondor

@christopherdevine8631 Год назад

Well done, Sir. Keep up the great work!

@agentskeet Год назад

I lived across the street from McCoy stadium when i was younger. The fireworks on the 4th were the best

@bobpita608 Год назад

Never seen a game in Worcester and won't I'm from Pawtucket and used go to McCoy all the time.

@henrockvargas1399 22 дня назад

Crazy I live next to the stadium grew up in Mass , recently moved to Pawtucket and I see the stadium across my crib here

@ericajohnson3230 5 месяцев назад

Every day every summer for years me and my Dad went to see pawsox games, and we had soo much fun, it hurts me to see that it is abandoned

@donaldberthel Год назад

Great video. I'm from Worcester and would enjoy going to PawSox games throughout the summer. As nice as the new Polar Park is, it lacks the charm and family feel of McCoy. So sad that another team was not able to fill the void but nice to hear that the land will be put to good use. Pretty cool that kids will be able to tell their kids that they went to school where the longest baseball game in history was played.

@rogerstlaurent8704 Год назад

Just like everyone in the comment section including myself has been to Mc Stadium a zillion times and it was truly a hidden gem in Rhode Island Good thing People like you Mr Jason that takes the time and Documents important places in history before they all despair forever ... Mr Jason you are truly a hidden gem for Rhode Island .. Just make sure that you dont go Abandoned LOL 😆🤣😆☺

@vtgkc138 2 месяца назад

Don't forget, also home to a Mike Stud music video!

@charlestonpinballarcade 2 месяца назад

Just found your channel! You are very talented. I’m sure the research, editing and scripting of these videos is very time consuming. This method of telling historical stories is a great way to help educate a public that mostly has no attention span. Nice work!

@johnlangis9313 11 месяцев назад

Amazing! I am hoping we can save McCoy! Praying!

@wmtward Год назад

Great one, Jason! I moved to the Providence area in '81 for a job change at a small division of Denison Mfg. on Bacon St., just a block from McCoy. Such proximity seemed like a big deal to me at the time. I made a point to go to one more game during that final season in '19. Kind of sad that I did my one and only COVID test there a year or so later, AND got a speeding ticket on the way there. But I must admit, Polar Park is a great place to watch a game. We can walk to it from daughter Helen's apartment.

@ecardullo10 Год назад

This was definitely the hardest one to watch, and I'm sure the hardest one for you to make. Thank you so much for keeping the memories alive with all of your videos. Larry Lucchino is a very bad man.

@ofcatsandcrepes2080 Год назад

"I hope nothing bad happens to this beloved place!" *weeps violently* I'm not a sports person, but I loved PawSox. It was more about eating the good food, hanging out with friends and watching the funny skits on the big screen while a bunch of guys happened to be playing baseball. Very heartbroken over its closing. I wonder if a video on Fantasy Land in Seekonk, MA will ever be done.....

@rosykindbunny1313 Год назад

I was heartbroken when I found out Fantasyland was closing. Occasionally my dad used to take me for mini-golf, and then I'd convince him to let me go in the arcade.

@CCL0286 Год назад

@@rosykindbunny1313what???

@CCL0286 Год назад

@@rosykindbunny1313what a fun place as a kid.

@michaelwblade Год назад

Jason this was one of my favorites of all the videos so far ❤ great job on the history 👍👍

@1mlb704 Год назад

I'm from MA, I went to several PawSox games when I was a kid. It was always fun, McCoy was a sweet little ballpark honestly. I do like the move to Worcester though, partially because it's closer to me, but they did a great job with Polar Park.

@mikebritcom3171 Год назад

I went to my first game there in 1966 to see the Red Sox double-A team (Pittsfield Red Sox) play against Pawtucket. The stadium is only a mile and half from Massachusetts and drew as many fans from there as from RI. Before I thankfully moved to FL 23 years ago I probably went to at least 600 games there (I never resided near there) and my last game was in 2019 against Durham. Been to Worcester once. I miss McCoy, but on the bright side, Pawtucket is getting a soccer stadium instead. Pawtucket of the 21st century is not the Pawtucket of the 20th.

@ricksrealpitbbq Год назад

I have so many memories from there. I went there as a kid and then took my kids there when I was older.

@cmorecake213 Год назад

As someone who’s been to 100s of pawsox games I still feel I took the team for granted. From playin HS thanksgiving games to just attending games on school field trips. The pawsox and McCoy stadium will be missed.

@MarcSpectorComics Год назад

Great video. I was born and raised in pawtucket and still drive by the stadium every so often. This one hurts that they werent able to come to common ground to keep the stadium from leaving. I had many memories of going to baseball games, watching the fireworks displays having food truck events on the field and even playing thanksgiving football games as a tolman football player against shea and st Ray's. It looks like theyve already started laying the land on the other side of the city for the new soccer stadium but this one hurts

@chris_1825 Год назад

Great video! I loved the shoutout to the Enchanted Forest! Unfortunately, the Rhode Island House of Representatives failed the PawSox and the fans. Raimondo and the RI Senate had a deal with the PawSox in place, but the House rejected it. RIP to McCoy and the PawSox.

@chrismc2288 Год назад

This is so sad… and it really hits hard as a big baseball fan who lives in RI

@dozaarchives2225 Год назад

Production is really great in this one. Very sad story, as I spent quite a few nights as a child here.

@brantley231playz5 Год назад

Amazing, I’ve been waiting for this one!

@nickbouchard3925 Год назад

Man I wish they never left 😪 such an icon such a shame its abandoned just like many other iconic rhode island land marks

@RyanRecon Год назад

I remember coming here as a kid running the bases seeing games with my family, being able to meet some of the players and everything like that really is a sad thing to see this beautiful place abandoned

@TheRaginCajun6 Год назад

When you said "Bandos" in your life I could immediately relate. Amusement Park(Jazzland/sixflags New Orleans), My elementary school(St. Agnes), Navy depot where i enlisted(New Orleans), New Orleans Zephys/Baby Cakes(AAA) gone. I havent been home in awhile to know if anything else is abandoned. I can't believe no more Pawsox.

@Stationjoke Год назад

I wish someone told me about this stadium sooner. I’m impressed

@al380aviation Год назад

Just found this video! I have fond memories of going there as a Cub Scout and sleeping on the outfield with my dad! :-)

@timothy4664 2 месяца назад

I moved my family home in 2018. My daughter was 3 and i looked forward to bringing her to McCoy someday to see a game and then the 4th fireworks. Losing that park hurt. Losing the hospital hurt. We might lose Hasbro. I feel you about losing memories of your youth. I will never set foot in Polar Park.

@cadetstm Год назад

18 years of opening night would have been 19 if i hadn't missed a year being at CCRI in 08. lot of cold but worth it nights of baseball

@RootiePatootie1 Год назад

Great job Jason! Enjoyed this very much and ya know I'm not a Sox fan. Still very entertaining and interesting.

@candievermeulen9858 Год назад

I'm glad there doing something with it I enjoy all your videos😊

@vvarietyshow Год назад

So cool. I just explored an abandoned minor league ballpark in Texas, it was in worse shape than this though. It's wild dude, we have a lot of similarities in how we make videos but your production quality and graphics blow me out of the water completely. Thanks for the extra kick, I gotta work harder. Your videos are incredible.

@thumperjr100 Год назад

Sad.......wonderful memories 😢

@jkriz6346 11 месяцев назад

I played here my sophomore year of HS in the state championship…even a couple years before it was abandoned the playing surface was amazing. Even tho there were only a couple hundred people there, the echoing of the crowd was electric

@HomerFil Год назад

Great video it’s sad I loved going there as a kid growing up and even as an adult!!

@2eyeluvmac2 Год назад

Very interesting. Well done. Brought back great memories. Thank you.

@ErsatzMcGuffin 8 месяцев назад

I could go on & on about McCoy stadium. I grew up on Lake St and it was my daily playground during the 50 and 60's. Surprised you didn't mention the Turkey Day FB between Saints and Tolman every year. That WAS tradition! The stadium was built on Hammond Pond which is actually a geological term for a place where water collects. That's the stadiums reason for being. Pond St, Lake St, Lake View ave. Meadow St Armistice Blvd was Brook St and they were all aptly named. The water collected there and big time fun was had during the winter when it froze over. The stadium was sinking an inch a year when I was a kid and the fun news to spread around was it was gonna sink away someday. While its new found use in 1966 wasn't very cool to everyone , like those of us that used the basketball court as it was turned into a parking lot. We used to search the stadium row by row after any event but especially after dinner each Turkey Day. More history may help its cause, one I think is worth the effort.

@curtislivingston2812 Год назад

im glad i waited to comment because i was like dont you dare not mention the epic fireworks display.... im sad that 35 year tradition for me is over

@roberthoyt7921 6 месяцев назад

I really miss this place and the PawSox

@christopherbeard6791 Год назад

Great video. I worked as a vendor there for the last few years. Saw many people play there including Rafael Devers and even Tim Tebow, lol

@wickedtreasuresrillc5252 Год назад

Alot of memories here 😢 many many games luckily did get to see two championship games here as well as Betts bogarts bucholtz etc come thru. I even recall as a teen seeing one of Roger's rehab starts. Remember one game will Middlebrook hit three home runs the third humerus ball skimming off my fingertips in the centerfield bleachers.. used to always sneak into the "party BBQ tent events near the end and get the good food free lol

@johncolletto8985 Год назад

Heck of a job Jason. Well done. Couple other notes I was hoping you mentioned--that site was called Hammond Pond, but evidently it was more swampish than a pond. They had to drain it and bring in fill to make it buildable. Word is a truck got so stuck in the muck they left it there as it sank, and supposedly there's a truck under the outfield someplace. It went way over budget but Mayor McCoy was determined to get it done with WPA money. I thought the first name of the stadium was Hammond Pond Stadium.