Fenway Park, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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monkeykat
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Fenway Park is the home ballpark of the Boston Red Sox baseball club. The field opened on April 20, 1912, and is the oldest ballpark still in active use in Major League Baseball. It is most famous for the left field wall called the "Green Monster".
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Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 01/24/2007
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What isn't there to say about Fenway Park? It is one of the most famous stadiums throughout the world, and home to the 2004 World Series Champion Boston Red Sox. Here's a little historical and stadium information.
Fenway Park opened on April 20, 1912, the same day as Tiger Stadium in Detroit. After that stadium closed in 1999, Fenway became the oldest ballpark still in active use in Major League Baseball.
It is located near, and named for, the Fenway neighborhood in the heart of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Fenway Park hosted the 1946, 1961, and 1999 Major League Baseball All-Star Games. Fenway's 1912 opening was five days after the sinking of the Titanic.
The stadium is most famous for the left field wall called the "Green Monster". Constructed in 1934, the 37-foot, two-inch high wall is 240 feet long, has a 22-foot deep foundation, and was constructed from 30,000 pounds of Toncan iron. Previously, a 23-½-foot tall screen protected cars and pedestrians on Lansdowne Street. However, the screen was replaced after the 2002 season with more seating atop the Green Monster (in an attempt to fit as many seats as possible in Fenway).
During the 1934 remodeling, the left-field scoreboard was added, and is one of two remaining original manual scoreboards in professional baseball (the other being at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois). Running vertically down the scoreboard, between the columns of out-of-town scores, are the initials "TAY" and "JRY" displayed in Morse code; a memorial to former Red Sox owners Thomas A. Yawkey and Jean R. Yawkey.
The lone red seat in the right field bleachers (Section 42, Row 37, Seat 21), signifies the spot where the longest measurable home run ever hit inside Fenway Park landed. Ted Williams hit the home run on June 9, 1946 off Fred Hutchinson of the Detroit Tigers. Williams' bomb was officially measured at 502 feet (153 m).
Pesky's Pole is the name for the pole on the right field foul line, which stands a mere 302 feet from home plate, the shortest right field porch in Major League Baseball. The pole was named after Johnny Pesky, a light-hitting shortstop for the Red Sox, who hit some of his six home runs at Fenway Park around the pole but never off the pole.
In a ceremony before the Red Sox's 2005 interleague game against the Cincinnati Reds, the pole on the left field foul line atop The Green Monster was named Fisk Foul Pole, in honor of Carlton "Pudge" Fisk. Fisk provided one of baseball's most enduring moments in Game 6 of the 1975 World Series against the Reds. Facing Reds right-hander Pat Darcy in the 12th inning with the score tied at 6–6, Fisk hit a long fly ball down the left field line. It appeared to be heading foul, but Fisk, after initially appearing unsure of whether or not to continue running to first base, famously jumped and waved his arms to the right as if to somehow direct the ball fair. It ricocheted off the foul pole, winning the game for the Red Sox and sending the series to a seventh and deciding game the next night.
Fenway Park long prided itself on being the smallest park in the major leagues. For the 2006 season, however, Fenway Park's capacity has been increased from 36,298 to 38,805—meaning that the smallest ballpark is now Pittsburgh's PNC Park.
Fenway Park is one of the most historic ball parks in the USA, and I highly recommend you attend a game there, if at all possible. Tours of the park are available daily, from the Yawkey way store, I highly recommend you take one, they are fun and very informative.
It's the home of which team(s)?: Boston Red Sox
Which professional sports are played here?: Major League baseball
Capacity (number of seats): 38,805
Opening Date: 04/20/1912
Guided Tours: yes
Venue's Website or Team's Website: [Web Link]
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