MY QUESTIONS!!!
When did Fenway Park originate?
What are some details on Fenway park?
Monday, May 21, 2007
The Beginning of Fenway
The first game in Fenway park was April 20, 1912. The first game was supposed to be on the 18th but those two games got rained out. The first night game at the stadium was 35 years after the grand opening on June 13, 1947. The creator of the park was James Mclaughlin. The total cost to make the stadium was $650,000. The architects of the stadium were Osburn engineering. When the park first opened it could hold 35,000 fans not including staff.
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
The Other Teams at Fenway
Red Sox weren't the only team to play at Fenway, before Fenway park opened as a baseball stadium it had opened as a football field. The teams that played there were the New England Patriots, the Boston Yanks, and the football teams for Boston College and Boston University.
Yawkey Way
Yawkey Way is named after Tom Yawkey, the Red Sox owner from 1933-76, and runs parallel to Fenway’s famed brick exterior, which has recently been flanked by Red Sox banners celebrating the team’s pennants and championships. Yawkey way is located just outside the entrance to Fenway Park, it is also the street Fenway is located on. Before Redsox games this street is full of fans.
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Friday, May 11, 2007
Fenway Fun Facts
Fenway Facts:
• Fenway park opened five days after the sinking of The Titanic.
• Red Sox dugout is on the 1st base side. The bullpens are located behind the right field fence.
• Elevation: 20 feet above sea level.
• Seats made of oak.
• 43 private 28-seat rooftop boxes added in 1984.
• Behind the manual scoreboard in left field is a room where the walls are covered with signatures of players that have played left field through the years.
• Infield grass was transplanted from Huntington Avenue Baseball Grounds to Fenway in 1912.
• In 1936 a 23-foot, 7-inch net was placed atop the wall in left to protect
windows on Landsdowne Street.
• In 1940, in an effort to help Ted Williams hit home runs, the Red Sox added the right-field bullpens, known as Williamsburg, which reduced the distance to the fence by 23 feet.
• A seat in the right field bleachers is painted red to mark the spot where 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. It was measured at 502 feet and supposedly crashed through the straw hat of the man sitting in the seat (Section 42, Row 37, Seat 21).
• The 1946 roof boxes were replaced in 1982.
• The screen behind home plate, designed to protect fans and allow foul balls to roll back down onto the field of play, was the first of its kind in the majors.
• Left-field scoreboard, installed on the wall in 1934, moved 20 feet to the right in 1976.
• The low concrete base of the left- and center-field walls was padded after the 1975 World Series, during which Fred Lynn crashed into the concrete wall in center.
• On June 13, 2005, in a ceremony before the Red Sox played the Cincinnati Reds at Fenway Park for the first time since the 1975 World Series, the left field foul pole was named "Fisk Pole." The ceremony honored Carlton Fisk, who hit the famous home run just inside the pole to win the 6th game of the series.
• Fenway park opened five days after the sinking of The Titanic.
• Red Sox dugout is on the 1st base side. The bullpens are located behind the right field fence.
• Elevation: 20 feet above sea level.
• Seats made of oak.
• 43 private 28-seat rooftop boxes added in 1984.
• Behind the manual scoreboard in left field is a room where the walls are covered with signatures of players that have played left field through the years.
• Infield grass was transplanted from Huntington Avenue Baseball Grounds to Fenway in 1912.
• In 1936 a 23-foot, 7-inch net was placed atop the wall in left to protect
windows on Landsdowne Street.
• In 1940, in an effort to help Ted Williams hit home runs, the Red Sox added the right-field bullpens, known as Williamsburg, which reduced the distance to the fence by 23 feet.
• A seat in the right field bleachers is painted red to mark the spot where 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. It was measured at 502 feet and supposedly crashed through the straw hat of the man sitting in the seat (Section 42, Row 37, Seat 21).
• The 1946 roof boxes were replaced in 1982.
• The screen behind home plate, designed to protect fans and allow foul balls to roll back down onto the field of play, was the first of its kind in the majors.
• Left-field scoreboard, installed on the wall in 1934, moved 20 feet to the right in 1976.
• The low concrete base of the left- and center-field walls was padded after the 1975 World Series, during which Fred Lynn crashed into the concrete wall in center.
• On June 13, 2005, in a ceremony before the Red Sox played the Cincinnati Reds at Fenway Park for the first time since the 1975 World Series, the left field foul pole was named "Fisk Pole." The ceremony honored Carlton Fisk, who hit the famous home run just inside the pole to win the 6th game of the series.
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