Fenway Park, Baseball venue in Fenway-Kenmore, Boston, US
Fenway Park is a baseball stadium in Fenway-Kenmore with 37,499 seats and a 37-foot-tall (11 meters) green wall in left field known as the Green Monster. The wooden seats and narrow walkways with low ceilings remain from the original 1912 construction.
The Boston Red Sox played their first game here on April 20, 1912, only days after headlines worldwide reported the sinking of the Titanic. Over the decades the stadium survived several demolition plans and was instead renovated in stages.
The name comes from the Fenway neighbourhood, marshland filled in the 19th century; owner John I. Taylor's family also owned the Fenway Realty Company. The hand-operated scoreboard inside the Green Monster is still changed by hand from behind the wall, and National League scores were restored in 2003. The right-field foul pole is officially Pesky's Pole, named in 2006 for Johnny Pesky on his 87th birthday.
The park sits in a dense block bounded by Jersey Street, Brookline Avenue, Van Ness Street and Lansdowne Street, so the Green Monster backs directly onto Lansdowne. Kenmore station on the Green Line is the usual approach. Gates open well before first pitch, and the concourses behind the grandstand are narrow, with low ceilings and support columns that block some sightlines.
A single red seat in the right field stands marks where a Ted Williams home run traveled 502 feet (153 meters), the longest ever measured here. Below the stadium the old locker rooms with low ceilings and narrow halls still exist, spaces that housed players from another era.
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