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Fenway Park
Historic Fenway Park is currently undergoing renovations for this 2008 season. The Boston Red Sox plan to add about 1,400 seats, some of which will be high-price seating in order to deflate overall ticket prices to cater to their local working Sox fans who cannot afford high ticket prices. The infamously challenging wall behind left field, the Green Monster, has also been updated with a brand new LED scoreboard.
Fenway Park, opened in 1912, has played host to the Boston Red Sox for the last 92 years. The park is shallow down the lines, measuring 310 feet to left and 302 feet to right, but opens up to 420 feet in deep right center field. The Green Monster, located in left field, measures 37 feet high and had seats installed atop it before the 2003 season. The monster also features one of the last hand operated scoreboards in use in the league.
Fenway has hosted three all-star games in its existence, most recently in 1999. The bullpens are located beyond the right field fencing shortening the distance 23 feet in a move that was made in order to help Ted Williams hit more home runs. In the middle of the century, Fenway Park hosted other sporting attractions, just like many other ballparks of the times. Pro and college football were held quite often, and in 1914, the World Series was held at Fenway even though the Red Sox weren't a part of it. The Boston Braves has been using Fenway Park while Braves Field was being renovated, and they played in Fenway as the home team for that championship series.
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