Fenway Park

; Fenway Park measures 310 feet (94.5 meters) down the left field line: 379 feet (115.5 meters) in left center field; 390 feet (118.9 meters) in center field; 420 feet (128 meters) in deep center field; 380 feet (115.8 meters) in deep right field; and 302 feet (92 meters) down the right field line. ; ; The left field wall -- also known as the Green Monster -- measures 37 feet (11.3 meters) high. The center field wall is 17 feet (5.2 meters) high, the bullpen fences measure five feet (1.5 meters) and the right field fence is 3 to 5 feet (0.9 to 1.5 meters) high.

Take the Red Line from Alewife to Park Street. At Park, go upstairs (take the WESTBOUND stairs) and get on any B, C, or D train to Kenmore.

April 20, 1912.

From 1912 to 1933, there was a 10-foot-high incline in front of the then 25-foot high left field wall at Fenway Park, extending from the left-field foul pole to the center field flag pole. As a result, a left fielder in Fenway Park had to play part of the territory running uphill (and back down). Boston's first star left fielder, Duffy Lewis, mastered the skill so well that the area became known as "Duffy's Cliff". The incline served two purposes: # it was a support for a high wall; # it was built to compensate for the difference in grades between the field and Lansdowne Street on the other side of that wall. It also served as a spectator-friendly seating area during the dead-ball era when overflow crowds would sit on the incline behind ropes. It is often compared to the infamous left field "terrace" at Cincinnati's Crosley Field, but, in truth, the 15-degree all-grass incline there served an entirely different purpose: as an alternative to an all dirt warning track found in most other ballparks. It was a natural feature of the site on which Crosley Field and its predecessors were located; slightly less severe inclines were deliberately built in center and right fields to compensate. The incline in center field of Minute Maid Park has been considered a tribute to Duffy's Cliff. As part of the 1934 remodeling of the ballpark, the bleachers and the wall itself, Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey arranged to flatten the ground along the base of the wall, so that Duffy's Cliff no longer existed, and thus became part of the lore of Fenway Park.

After the wall was painted green in 1947, advertisements did not appear on the wall until 1999, when the All-Star Game at Fenway was being promoted. Various ads have appeared above the scoreboard since then, such as the Jimmy Fund. But the Coke Bottles on the left light tower were a target for power-hitters when they were placed in 1997. These 3D advertisements were taken down before the 2008 season where a LED sign was built above the new left-field upper deck seats. As a lead up to his 500th career home run, Manny Ramirez's home run count was tallied on the bottom of the light tower. Ads beside the manual score board were added when the scoreboard was expanded. Above the manual scoreboard, where a Jimmy Fund advertisement had remained for many years, the logo for Covidien Healthcare is now a prominent aspect of Fenway Park.

April 2003

Texas Rangers may 14, 2003

Yes. There was a candlepin bowling center in the basement of Fenway Park until 2004.

Red Sox pitcher Mel Parnell (himself immortalized in Terry Cashman's Talking Baseball) immortalized his teammate Johnny Pesky by dubbing the right field foul pole in Fenway Park the Pesky Pole, after Pesky won a game for Parnell with a home run near the pole. The pole is just 302 feet from home plate. Pesky was a slap hitter, and his bloop would have been a routine fly out in most other parks (just as Bobby Thompson's "Shot Heard Around the World" would have been a routine fly out in any stadium besides the Polo Grounds). Parnell made the name stick after he became the Red Sox broadcaster.

No. They took them out. Apparently they were depressing bottled water sales.

April 12th 1912, the first ball was thrown out by then Mayor Fitzgerald, the grandfather of President Kennedy. The news of the Titanic Sinking was announced before the begining of the game.

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it represents fun and also it represents the home team the red soxs

they see god

Yes, but it must be a photo license with a valid date.

Dropkick Murphys.

Fenway (1912) is older than Wrigley (1914).

Here's a pic. Th left-field wall is called the green monster. The right-field foul pole (not shown) is called Pesky Pole, named after Sox great Johhny Pesky.

Not since the Red Sox won the world championship in 2004.

The whole left field grandstands burned to the ground. Since the grandstands were not replaced, foul territory ran all the way to Brookline Avenue.

I heard a rumor that the best standing room only seats are pavillion at $25 each. They also have home plate and right standing room only which I don't suggest because it gets very crowded and you will be standing staring at someone's back WHILE BEER SPILLS DOWN YOURS. However I found some decent priced redsox Yankees tickets for a group of friends I work with at www.thebostonredsox.com can't wait for the season to start. Go sox!

Brian - Lexington, Mass.

Because you would ruin the stigma, of what makes Fenway one of the best parks in major league baseball. In other words, without the Green Monster, and what it does, Fenway would be just another ball park. If they did that ... then one of those bloop hits that just scrapes the wall and results in a double would be ruled a home run. I will grant you that a line drive that hits high on the wall would be a home run in another park, but the risk of awarding home runs to weakly hit balls that wouldn't be a home run in any park outweighs the loss of those hard-hit balls that end up only being singles or doubles.

Reevere

Fenway Park opened in 1912.

The Red Sox last won the World Series in 2007.

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