The WooSox are going full North Pole takeover this December, and Bank of America just planted its flag as presenting sponsor of the 14-night “Winter in Wooville” festival — a sprawling, sugar-fueled, mascot-packed holiday spectacle promising enough lights, cookies, and selfie zones to short-circuit Worcester’s power grid.
The team says Polar Park will be “transformed into a magical holiday destination” from December 4 through December 23, and judging by the laundry list of attractions, they mean it literally. Eight different themed light zones will swallow the ballpark whole, from “Traditional Christmas” to “Winter Wonderland” to “Glitz and Glam” to — of course — “Baseball.” Every zone comes pre-loaded with backdrops for families to snag their annual holiday photo, meaning thousands of Worcester kids are about to be memorialized standing under blinking LED icicles next to a mascot with a baseball for a head.
Tickets are already live at polarpark.com/wooville, but Bank of America cardholders get the golden ticket: special pricing on Opening Night, plus an hour of exclusive access before the gates open to the general public at 6 p.m. Cardholders also get free hot chocolate at the Behind the Plate stand for the entire month, because if there’s one sure way to win over a New England crowd in December, it’s free heat in a cup…