* 1981 – The longest professional baseball game is begun in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

The name is often shortened to " Bosox " or " BoSox ," a combination of " Boston " and " Sox " ( similar to the " ChiSox " in Chicago or the minor league " PawSox " of Pawtucket ).

** A Minor League Baseball game between the Rochester Red Wings and the Pawtucket Red Sox at McCoy Stadium in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, becomes the longest professional baseball game in history: 8 hours and 25 minutes / 33 innings ( the 33rd inning is not played until June 23 ).

Boundary disputes were common and the land that is now Rehoboth, East Providence, Pawtucket and Seekonk was claimed by both Rhode Island and Massachusetts.

It is bordered by Rehoboth to the east, Barrington, Rhode Island and Swansea to the south, East Providence and Pawtucket, Rhode Island to the west, and Attleboro to the north.

At the top of the falls is the Pawtucket Dam, designed to turn the upper Merrimack into a millpond, diverted through Lowell's extensive canal system.

There is a ninety-degree bend in the Merrimack partway down the Pawtucket Falls.

As it is immediately north of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, one of the options under discussion is municipal merger.

Pawtucket () is a city in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States.

Pawtucket is located north of downtown Providence, Rhode Island.

Hasbro, one of the world's largest manufacturer of toys and games, is headquartered in Pawtucket.

Pawtucket is named for the Algonquian word for " river fall.

Pawtucket is located at.

Pawtucket is becoming known as a center for arts and culture.

Pawtucket is home to the Pawtucket Red Sox, the AAA affiliate / Minor League team of the Boston Red Sox and owned by Ben Mondor.

Public education in Pawtucket is directed by the Pawtucket School Department and contains these schools: </ br >

The Quality Hill section of Pawtucket is home to St. Raphael Academy.

This game is no longer played, as William E. Tolman now competes annually against its fellow Pawtucket public high school Charles E. Shea, rather than against St. Raphael Academy, a private Catholic high school.

Pawtucket is also home to Bishop Keough High School, a small all-girls catholic high school located in the Fairlawn neighborhood.

Amtrak's Northeast Corridor and the MBTA's Providence / Stoughton Line run through Pawtucket, though there is no stop for either in the city.

The 2008 documentary Pawtucket Rising also chronicled the influx of artists and cultural activities into previously blighted areas of the city.

Riders can also access RIPTA buses to Providence at the downtown hub, or on the Smithfield Avenue (# 53 ) or Pawtucket Avenue (# 99 ) routes.

Interstate 95 and U. S. 1 also traverse the western part of Pawtucket.

Minor leaguers Charlie Zink of the Lancaster Barnstormers, Joseph Zeller of the Peoria Chiefs, Charlie Haeger of the Albuquerque Isotopes, and Steven Wright of the Pawtucket Red Sox also throw the knuckleball.

The Cleveland Indians had also placed an Eastern League club in Pawtucket, in 1966 – 67.

The band also stated at the Pawtucket show that the sellout crowd of 10, 060 was the largest in the band's history.

In 1850, he also ordered the construction of the Great Gate over the Pawtucket Canal to protect the downtown mills from any devastating floods.

He also set a single-season home run record for Pawtucket catchers with 21 and also hit one as a designated hitter.

He also spent the first part of the 2005 year in Triple-A splitting time between the Pawtucket and Portland squads.

In 1813, the road from northern Pawtucket to the village of Valley Falls in Cumberland was also laid out as a turnpike, known as the Valley Falls Turnpike '.

The Pennacook, also known by the names Merrimack and Pawtucket, were a North American people that primarily inhabited the Merrimack River valley of present-day New Hampshire and Massachusetts, as well as portions of southern Maine.

He later ended up with Boston's farm team, the Pawtucket Red Sox as a coach and also managed in the minors.

The town has three golf courses ( Ledgemont, Pawtucket and Firefly ) and one playground.

* McCoy Stadium in Pawtucket, Rhode Island ( one series against the Pawtucket Red Sox )

With Pawtucket, he went 9-6 in 19 starts with a 2. 96 era, with 3 complete games, one being a perfect game.

After appearing in just one game ( a 7-6 defeat against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays on August 6, 2006 ), Miller would be designated for assignment on August 14, 2006, to make room for Craig Breslow, who was promoted from Pawtucket.

He was placed on the 15-day disabled list on August 16 ( retroactive to August 14 ) with a strained muscle in his left rib cage and made one start on rehab assignment on August 26 for Pawtucket before being activated on September 1.

This proving successful, he and others purchased the water-power at Pawtucket Falls, and he was one of the founders of the Merrimac Manufacturing Company.

The game would not be finished until June 23. Rochester and Pawtucket did play another game on the same Sunday, but, as one author noted, " they did not attempt to resolve their 32-inning tie then because officials of both clubs were worried that the eligible players were exhausted.

Over his career, Stairs has played for six other minor league teams: The Indianapolis Indians ( Triple-A ) in 1992, the Ottawa Lynx ( Triple-A ) in 1993, the New Britain Red Sox ( Double-A ) in 1994, the Pawtucket Red Sox ( Triple-A ) in 1995, the Edmonton Trappers ( Triple-A ) in 1996 and a few rehab games for the Nashville Sounds ( Triple-A ) in 2003.

") ran so deep that he gave the starting assignment in the last game of the " Massacre " to rookie Bobby Sprowl, who had only been called up from Triple-A Pawtucket a few days earlier.