Pawtucket, RI

Pawtucket is located in northeastern Rhode Island, on the Blackstone River and the border of Massachusetts, north of Providence, RI and 5 miles southwest of Attleboro, MA.

Since the 1970s, the presence of the top farm team of the Boston Red Sox, which has drawn very well, has been one of the few bright spots in an economically depressed mill town that never fully recovered from the Great Depression. As a result, residents took very hard the news that the "PawSox" would likely be headed to nearby Providence in 2017. Those plans fell through because of difficulties related to the construction of a new ballpark, but the long-term future of baseball in Pawtucket remains problematic.

Teams that have played here

• Pawtucket, New England League (1892)
• Pawtucket Maroons, New England League (1894-1896)
• Pawtucket Phenoms, New England League (1897)
• Pawtucket Tigers, New England League (1898)
• Pawtucket Colts, New England League (1899)
• Pawtucket Colts, Atlantic Association (1908)
• Pawtucket Tigers, Colonial League (1914)
• Pawtucket Slaters, New England League (1946-1949)
• Pawtucket Indians, Eastern League (1966-1967)
• Pawtucket Red Sox, Eastern League (1970-1972)
• Pawtucket Red Sox, International League (1973-1975, 1977-present)
• Rhode Island Red Sox, International League (1976)

Persons who were born here

• Lou Arnold, AAGPBL pitcher
• Art Bowland, minor league outfielder
• Jim Duffy, umpire
• Ed Kelly, pitcher
• John LaRose, pitcher
• Pete Lussier, minor league pitcher
• Chet Nichols Jr., pitcher
• Ken Ryan, pitcher
• Jim Siwy, pitcher
• Sean Smith, minor league pitcher
• Mason Williams, outfielder

Persons who died here

• Charley Bassett, infielder
• Dennis Driscoll, infielder
• Pat Maloney, outfielder
• Chet Nichols Sr., pitcher
• Hank Soar, umpire
• Bill Vinton, pitcher

Educational institutions located here

• St. Raphael Academy
• William E. Tolman High School