​WORCESTER — While Chad Tracy sat inside his office at Polar Park around 5 p.m. on April 25, the former WooSox manager made a rare call to his wife, Emily, during the middle of a Triple-A game.Drenched in sweat and coated in mulch from her fingertips to toes, Emily, who was in the middle of landscaping the front yard of their home in Fairfield, Ohio, answered the phone.“I said, ‘Darn, what did you get kicked out of the game for?’” Emily recalled. “He said, ‘Em, are you sitting down?’ You start to go into panic mode that something bad happened. But he told me a plane was coming to pick him up that night to go manage (the Boston Red Sox) in Baltimore the next day.“I was speechless.”Nearly four hours after telling his wife he’d been named interim manager of the Boston Red Sox, Tracy rolled a black suitcase through the lower bowel of Polar Park and left to board a plane headed for Baltimore.It’s been a whirlwind ever since for the Tracys.’It was special’: Chad Tracy wins first game at Fenway Park as Red Sox interim managerOn Thursday, for the first time since that eventful day, Tracy stepped foot inside Polar Park to be enshrined in the WooSox Hall of Fame.“I’ve done a lot of cool things in baseball over the course of my life but have never been inducted into any type of Hall of Fame,” Tracy said on Cassell’s Corner podcast earlier this year. “… I’ve literally spent more time (at Polar Park in the last five years) than I’ve spent at my own home.“So, this place has become like a second home, or a first home in a lot of ways, because of how much time I’ve spent here, and we’ve had a lot of good times and a lot of success. So, I’m pretty proud and flattered and thrilled to have that happen.”Before Chad Tracy is enshrined in the WooSox Hall of Fame later today, I asked the former Worcester Red Sox manager and current Boston Red Sox interim manager what it meant to be inducted into the Triple-A club’s Hall of Fame.Here’s what Tracy said on Cassell’s Corner podcast: pic.twitter.com/6AhTKreKBP— Tommy Cassell (@tommycassell44) July 23, 2026A fairy tale journeyWhile some wondered if Chad Tracy would return for a fifth season as the WooSox manager, the baseball lifer known as “Trace” was back overseeing the Red Sox’ Triple-A club this year.At least until April 25, when he was pulled from the dugout during the third inning of Worcester’s game and told by Red Sox brass that he was being called up to Boston.“To finally get that call and to witness anyone’s dream coming true, how do you put that into words?” Emily told the T&G. “Not just anybody — but your husband. It’s hard to explain how crazy and cool it’s been.”From strangers to best buddies: How Jose Flores and Chad Tracy’s relationship blossomed beyond baseballSince being named interim manager of the Boston Red Sox, Tracy has pulled the big-league club out from the bottom of the American League East standings and into third place.