Introduction
Fenway Park, which serves as the home baseball park for the MLB team Boston Red Sox, is located near Kenmore Square in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It is the oldest Major League Baseball (MLB) ballpark, which was opened back in 1912, and is the only one of the original standard stadiums that is currently in use. However, Fenway Park is the home ballpark of the Red Sox; they didn’t always played their games there.
Occasionally, they programmed their big games at Braves Field to hold larger crowds. The first official game was played on April 9, 1912, when the Red Sox defeated Harvard University, 2-0. The first professional baseball game at Fenway park was played between Red Sox and New York Highlanders (later known as the New York Yankees), which the Red Sox won 7-6.
Address of Fenway Park is –
4 Yaw key Way,
Boston, Massachusetts 02215,
877-REDSOX9,
United States.
Design
Design of the Fenway Park was proposed by the architect firm Osborne Engineering Corporation, and the construction cost was USD $650,000 ($14.3 million in 2008 dollars). It includes many buildings of similar architecture and height, causing it to merge in well (wall areas) with its surroundings. This results in the park appearing less and smaller imposing than other major outdoor sports places in the country. The stadium is a ‘hitter’s ballpark’, with its generally closer-than-normal outfield fences, narrow foul ground, and short right field fence. It has a considerable number of stymied view seats, due to pillars supporting upper deck.
Dimensions
• Surface – Grass.
• Capacity – 36,974 for day games, and 37,402 for night games.
• Right Field – 302 ft (92 m).
• Left Field – 310 ft (94.5 m).
• Center Field – 389 ft 9 in (118.8 m).
• Deep Right-Center – 420 ft (128 m).
• Deep Left-Center – 379 ft (94.5 m).
• Right Center – 380 ft (115.8 m).
• Backstop – 60 ft (18.3 m).
Features
• The Green Monster – The Green Monster is the famous, thirty-seven feet, two inch (11.3 m) left field wall at the Fenway Park. Its distance from the home plate is around 315 ft, and is a popular target for right-handed hitters.
• Pesky’s Poles – Pesky’s Poles, the shortest porch (left or right field) in MLB, is the name for the pole on the right field foul line. Its distance from the home plate is 302 feet. The pole was named after shortstop (SS) Johnny Pesky, who had hit six home runs around the pole.
• The Lone Red Seat – The Lone Red Seat is located in the right field bleachers (Section 42, Row 37, Seat 21), which signifies the longest home run ever hit at the Fenway Park. This home run was hit by the Ted Williams, which was measured at 153 m (502 ft), and would have flown up to 161 m (535 feet) if it hadn’t hit Joseph Boucher in the head to wake him from a nap.
• Duffy’s Cliff – Duffy’s Club was a 3.0 m (10 feet) high incline in front of the left field wall, extending from the left field foul pole to the center field flag pole at Fenway Park. It got its name from the left fielder Duffy Lewis, who was master at the skill in playing the area running uphill.
• Stadium Usage (other than baseball) – The stadium is also used for the other sports such as football, soccer, National Hockey League (NHL).