 thumb|female mascot, sox. the male mascot is paws. the pawtucket red sox (known colloquially as the pawsox) are the minor league baseball triple-a affiliate of the boston red sox and play their games in the international league. the team plays their home games at mccoy stadium in pawtucket, rhode island. they are the only professional baseball team in rhode island. their most recent championship win was in 2014. ==team history== ===eastern league franchise (1970â72)=== the first team to be dubbed the pawtucket red sox debuted at mccoy stadium in 1970 as a member of the double-a eastern league. the franchise, owned by former major league shortstop joe buzas, had spent the previous five seasons (1965â69) as the pittsfield red sox after playing in four different pennsylvania cities â allentown, johnstown, york, and reading â over seven years (1958â64). after three seasons, pawtucket's eastern league franchise moved to bristol, connecticut, in 1973 to make room for the triple-a pawsox. carlton fisk, the future baseball hall of fame catcher, played for the eastern league pawsox in 1970. shortstop rick burleson and first baseman cecil cooper are among the players who toiled for both the double-a and triple-a editions of the team. the franchise played for 10 seasons as the bristol red sox before moving to new britain in 1983; it still exists as the new britain rock cats, an affiliate of the colorado rockies beginning in 2015. the cleveland indians had also placed an eastern league club in pawtucket, in 1966â67. the pawtucket indians mo
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