Fenway Park
Boston Red Sox (MLB) (1912 - current) Boston Redskins (NFL ) ( 1933-1936 ) Boston Yanks (NFL ) ( 1944-1948 ) Boston Patriots (AFL ) ( 1963-1967 ) Boston Braves (MLB ) ( 1914-1915) Boston Beacons ( NASL ) ( 1968)
Fenway Park is the home stadium of the U.S. Major League Baseball team the Boston Red Sox. It's in the Fenway neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts. Was opened Fenway Park on April 20, 1912, he is the oldest baseball stadium, which is still used. The attendance record with 47 627 visitors were on September 22, 1935, at the game against the New York Yankees set up. The stadium is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Special
Fenway Park is one of the few remaining "classic stages," the Major Leagues, in which there are still seats from which you can not see the whole game field. These are sold as such and remember a less commercial era of baseball. Furthermore, Fenway Park several characteristic peculiarities which received so many nicknames over the years.
A special feature of the stadium is the wall behind the left outfield, called The Green Monster ( " The Green Monster "). The 11.3 meters high and 73.2 meters long wall was part of the stadium in 1912 and existed until 1934 wood. On it, a manual scoreboard was installed, which is used to this day. 1947, the billboards were painted over with green paint on the wall, which earned her the nickname today. After this wall is also the mascot of the Red Sox, " Wally, the Green Monster ," named.
The Lone Red Seat ( " lone red seat ") is a seat on the seat block behind the right outfield (Section 42, Row 37, No. 21 ). It marks the point at which landed the longest ever at Fenway Park struck home run. This was fought on June 9, 1946 by Ted Williams 153 meters into the stands.
The " Pesky Pole " in the right outfield is named after Johnny Pesky. He stands at a distance of 302 feet (about 92 m) to the home plate. The pitcher Mel Parnell should have came up with this name after a rather accidental blow Peskys in the area of the pole to the game win. Johnny Pesky hit only 17 home runs in his 10 -year career, including but six at Fenway Park.
In 2006, the Fenway Park was selected in a nationwide survey in the updated edition of the game Monopoly and is there to Times Square, the second most expensive place.
After the opening was barely reported on the new stadium in the press. The reason was that the sinking of the Titanic dominated the headlines.
Fenway Park holds the longest series of sold-out Major League Baseball games in unbroken succession. The first game of this ongoing series took place on 15 May 2003 and the 600th consecutive sold-out game was celebrated on 18 July 2010.
On 20 April 2012, the film composer John Williams led the Fanfare for Fenway, on the occasion of the 100th birthday of the park, on.
Other Terms
Despite the relatively small size of Fenway Park is a perfectly viable football game site because of its rectangular floor plan. So played today's NFL team the Washington Redskins from 1933 to 1936 here under the name Boston Redskins from 1963 to 1968 played the New England Patriots at Fenway as Boston Patriots. The city rivals of the Red Sox, the Boston Braves (now the Atlanta Braves ) wore their home games at the World Series 1914 at Fenway Park. In addition, have the Boston College and Boston University in the past here also played their football games. Occasionally, concerts are held.
The NHL Winter Classic - - On 10 April 2009, the National Hockey League their traditional New Year's game decided in 2010 at Fenway Park unsubscribe. The Boston Bruins beat the Philadelphia Flyers with this 2-1 after extra time. The decisive goal was scored by Marco Sturm on presentation of Patrice Bergeron.