Fenway Park

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Fenway Park
America's Most Beloved Ballpark
The Cathedral
Fenway Park before a 2013 World Series game
Fenway Park before a 2013 World Series game
Data
place 4 Yawkey Way Boston , Massachusetts 02215
United StatesUnited States
Coordinates 42 ° 20 '46.5 "  N , 71 ° 5' 51.9"  W Coordinates: 42 ° 20 '46.5 "  N , 71 ° 5' 51.9"  W.
owner Fenway Sports Group
Boston Red Sox
operator Fenway Sports Group
Boston Red Sox
start of building September 25, 1911
opening April 20, 1912
First game April 9, 1912
Boston Red Sox - Harvard ( friendly )
April 20, 1912
Boston Red Sox - New York Highlanders 7-6 (11th innings)
Renovations 1988, 2002–2011, 2017
Extensions 1934, 1946, 2002-2011, 2017
surface Natural grass ( Kentucky Blue Grass )
costs 650,000 US dollars (1912)
architect Osborn Engineering Corp.
capacity 37,305 places (since 2018 day)
37,755 places (since 2018 evening)
37,281 places (2017 day)
37,731 places (2017 evening)
37,497 places (2016 day)
37,949 places (2016 evening)
37,227 places (2015 day)
37,673 places (2015 evening)
37,071 places (2013–2014 day)
37,499 places (2013–2014 evening)
37,067 places (2012 day)
37,495 places (2012 evening)
37,065 places (2011 day)
37,493 places (2011 evening)
36,986 places (2010 day)
37,402 places (2010 Evening)
36,984 places (2009 day)
37,400 places (2009 evening)
36,945 places (2008 day)
37,373 places (2008 evening)
36,109 places (2007 day)
36,525 places (2007 evening)
35,692 places (2006 day)
36,108 places (2006 evening)
34,679 places (2004–2005 day)
35,095 places (2004–2005 evening)
34,482 places (2003 day)
34,898 places (2003 evening)
33,577 places (2001–2002 day)
33,993 places (2001–2002 evening)
33,455 places (1995–2000 Day)
33,871 places (1995–2000 evening)
34,218 places (1993–1994)
33,925 places (1992)
34,171 places (1991)
34,182 places (1989–1990)
33,583 places (1985–1988 )
33,465 places (1983–1984)
33,536 places (1981–1982)
33,538 places (1979–1980)
33,513 places (1977–1978)
33,437 places (1976)
33,379 places (1971–1975)
33,375 places (1968–1970)
33,524 places (1965–1967)
33,357 places (1961–1964)
33,368 places (1960)
34,819 places (1958–1959)
34,824 places (1953–1957)
35,200 places (1949–1952)
35,500 places (1947–1948)
35,000 places (1912– 1946)
playing area Left Field: 310 ft (94.5 m)
Deep Left Center: 379 ft (115.5 m)
Center Field: 389 ft 9 in (118.8 m)
Deep Right Center: 420 ft (128 m)
Right Field : 380 ft (115.8 m)
Right Field: 302 ft (92 m)
Backstop: 60 ft (18.3 m)
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Events

The Fenway Park is a baseball stadium in the district of Fenway-Kenmore the US city of Boston in the state of Massachusetts . The home ground of the Boston Red Sox from Major League Baseball (MLB) currently holds 37,305 for day games and 37,755 for evening games. The facility is listed on the National Register of Historic Places .

history

The stadium was built between 1911 and 1912. It got its name from the former president and co-owner of the Red Sox, John I. Taylor, who named it simply after its location in the Boston district of Fenway and who had previously given the Red Sox its name in 1907. Fenway Park opened on April 20, 1912, making it the MLB's oldest ballpark that is still in use. The first official match took place at the opening between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Highlanders (now the New York Yankees ). The encounter lasted eleven innings and ended in a 7-6 win for the Red Sox. After the opening, however, the new stadium was hardly reported in the press, as the sinking of the Titanic dominated the headlines. The construction work itself was not even finished at the opening and dragged on through the entire season until the final games of the 1912 World Series.

Fenway Park is one of the few remaining "classic stadiums" of the Major League in which there are still seats from which you cannot see the entire field of play. These are sold as such and are reminiscent of a less commercial era of baseball. Furthermore, Fenway Park has several characteristic features that have received many nicknames over the years.

A special feature of the stadium is the wall behind the left outfield , called The Green Monster ( German  "The Green Monster" ). The wall, which is 11.3 meters high and 73.2 meters long, was part of the stadium as early as 1912. However, it was initially only 7.6 meters high and was made of wood until 1934. A peculiarity of this first wall was the so-called Duffy's Cliff (after the Red Sox left fielder George Edward "Duffy" Lewis), a rise in the playing field extending over its entire length, so that the players had to run uphill on it. A manual display board is housed in the wall, which is still used today and is operated from inside the monster . In 1947 the billboards on the wall were painted over with green paint, which earned it its current nickname. The Red Sox's mascot , "Wally, the Green Monster", is named after the wall .

The Lone Red Seat is a seat in the seat block behind the right outfield (section 42, row 37, seat 21). It marks the point where the longest home run ever hit Fenway Park landed. This was beaten on June 9, 1946 by Ted Williams 153 meters into the audience stands.

The Pesky Pole in the right outfield is named after Johnny Pesky . It is located 302  feet (92 m) from the home plate. The pitcher Mel Parnell is said to have come up with this name after a rather accidental blow Peskys into the area of ​​the pole to win the game. Johnny Pesky hit only 17 home runs in his 10-year career, but six of them at Fenway Park.

The record attendance in Fenway Park with an official 47,627 visitors was set on September 22, 1935, at the game against the New York Yankees , with estimates including free ticket holders and guests actually around 49,000 visitors in the stadium. Of the visitors in the stadium, around 5,000 only found a place on the field itself and around 10,000 more people were not allowed in at all.

In 2006, Fenway Park was voted into the updated edition of the game Monopoly in a nationwide poll and is the second most expensive place there after Times Square .

Fenway Park has the longest streak of sold-out major league baseball games in a row. This began on May 15, 2003 and ended on April 10, 2013 after almost ten years and 820 sold out games, including 794 regular season and 26 play-off games.

On April 20, 2012, the film composer John Williams performed the Fanfare for Fenway on the occasion of the park's 100th birthday.

Other use

Despite its relatively small size, Fenway Park is a viable football venue due to its rectangular floor plan . Today's NFL team, the Washington Redskins, played here under the name Boston Redskins from 1933 to 1936 , and the New England Patriots played in Fenway as the Boston Patriots from 1963 to 1968 . The city rivals of the Red Sox, the Boston Braves (now the Atlanta Braves ) played their home games of the 1914 World Series in Fenway Park. Furthermore, Boston College and Boston University have also played their football games here in the past. The football team of the Boston Beacons of the North American Soccer League played in 1968 here their home games, but had only one year of existence. Occasionally concerts take place. B. The Rolling Stones (start of the A Bigger Bang Tour 2005 ), Bruce Springsteen , Paul McCartney and Aerosmith .

On April 10, 2009, the National Hockey League decided to play their traditional New Year's game - the NHL Winter Classic  - 2010 in Fenway Park. The Boston Bruins beat the Philadelphia Flyers 2-1 after extra time. Marco Sturm scored the decisive goal on presentation by Patrice Bergeron .

gallery

  • The Green Monster 2004 with the manual scoreboard

  • View from the green monster into the stadium (2004)

  • Fenway Park photographed from Prudential Tower (September 2006)

  • Fenway Park (May 2009)

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Panoramic view of the infield from the grandstand at the outfield (2007)
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Panoramic view from the Grandstand over the infield to the east of the Prudential Tower and 200 Clarendon Street, formerly the John Hancock Tower (2014)

literature

  • Michael Ian Borer: Faithful to Fenway: Believing in Boston, Baseball, and America's Most Beloved Ballpark. New York University Press, New York 2008, ISBN 978-0-8147-9977-2 .
  • David Hickey, Raymond Sinibaldi, Kerry Keene: Fenway Park . Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, South Carolina 2012, ISBN 978-0-7385-7688-6 .

Web links

Commons : Fenway Park  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Founding Of Fenway Park. Major League Baseball, accessed November 30, 2014 .
  2. ^ Books.google.com: Philip Lowry: Green Cathedrals: The Ultimate Celebration of All Major League Ballparks
  3. ^ National Register of Historic Places Program. National Park Service, accessed November 30, 2014 .
  4. ^ A b c d e f David Hickey, Raymond Sinibaldi, Kerry Keene: Fenway Park . Arcadia Publishing, ISBN 978-0-7385-7688-6 , pp. 10 (English).
  5. ↑ David Hickey, Raymond Sinibaldi, Kerry Keene: Fenway Park . Arcadia Publishing, ISBN 978-0-7385-7688-6 , pp. 12 (English).
  6. ^ Wally the green monster. Boston Red Sox, accessed November 30, 2014 .
  7. ↑ a b Gerry Moore: Record crowd near 49,000 jams Fenway Park . In: The Boston Globe . Boston Globe Media Partners, LLC, Boston September 23, 1935.
  8. ↑ a b Roscoe McGowen: 47,627 Lake Yankees Halt Red Sox by 6-4 and 9-0; Boston's Largest American League Crowd Overflows Into Field-Brown Pitches Four-Hit Shut-Out, Fanning Eight. In: The New York Times . The New York Times Company, New York September 23, 1935, pp. SPORTS 22 .
  9. ↑ Nick Cafardo: As Red Sox 'attendance streak ends, what's next? The Boston Globe, April 11, 2013, accessed November 30, 2014 .
  10. ↑ David Hickey, Raymond Sinibaldi, Kerry Keene: Fenway Park . Arcadia Publishing, ISBN 978-0-7385-7688-6 , pp. 95 (English).
  11. ↑ David Hickey, Raymond Sinibaldi, Kerry Keene: Fenway Park . Arcadia Publishing, ISBN 978-0-7385-7688-6 , pp. 120 f . (English).
  12. ↑ setlist.fm: Fenway Park concert list (English)
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