PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- The leader of one of the Boston Red Sox's minor league affiliates has died. Pawtucket Red Sox President James Skeffington was 73.
Team spokeswoman Patti Doyle says Skeffington died Sunday night while jogging in Barrington, Rhode Island.
Skeffington had been the team's public face pushing to build a stadium on land in downtown Providence.
He bought the Triple-A affiliate of the Boston Red Sox in February with a group that includes Red Sox President and CEO Larry Lucchino.
They announced a controversial and potentially expensive decision: The team would leave Pawtucket's McCoy Stadium and hoped to build a stadium on riverfront land in downtown Providence.