Pawtucket Red Sox owner James Skeffington’s campaign to get $60 million in stadium subsidies plus free land for moving a few miles to Pawtucket hit an obstacle this weekend when Skeffington unexpectedly died of a heart attack. The Rhode Island attorney was 73.
Shortly before Skeffington’s death was announced, the team put out a press statement saying that McCoy Stadium, the team’s current home in Pawtucket, would need $65 million in renovations to be made “state-of-the-art,” a figure that city officials told the Boston Globe seemed ‘‘extraordinarily high.’’ Nobody quite knows what will happen now with Skeffington gone, as he was the driving force behind the Providence stadium campaign, but that won’t stop people from speculating wildly in print.
As long as its not falling apart why exactly do minor league sporting stadiums need to be state of the art?