PawSox which is owned by Ben Mondor won regular-season and were second in the Governor's cup in 1977 but managed to draw over 199,000 by 1984.
After enduring three different owners, at least two threats to move the team elsewhere, and bankruptcy, the PawSox were purchased from the International League by local industrialist Ben Mondor in January 1977. On February 23, 2015, the team was sold to a group headed by then-Boston Red Sox president and chief executive officer Larry Lucchino and Rhode Island attorney James J. Skeffington. 
