Fenway Park

Fenway Park is the home stadium of the Boston Red Sox. It is currently the oldest Major League Baseball stadium in use.

Fenway Park was built on an unusually shaped, cobbled-together group of lots in the Fenway neighborhood of Boston. While the park is the oldest currently in use, incremental improvements made almost since the day it opened has allowed it to keep up with the times, while retaining an old-time feel and important historical features. For example, despite its Jumbotron, the score is also kept on an old-time manual scoreboard on the Green Monster.

The most well-known feature of Fenway is "The Green Monster". Because the land purchased was not enough to allow left field to reach its customary depth (center left field measures at only 310 feet), the architects built a 37-foot wall which was allegedly high enough to compensate. In 2003, seats were added to the top of the wall, a move which at the time created some controversy.

The right field foul pole is named after legendary Red Sox player Johnny Pesky, who was known for hitting home runs very close to it.

In 1935, 47,627 fans crammed into Fenway Park. Fire codes in the wake of the Cocoanut Grove fire of 1942 prevented attendance from reaching those heights again, and current maximum capacity of the park is 37,400.

• Boston Red Sox

• September 25: 1911: Broke Ground

• April 20, 1912: Opening Day

• 1912: World Series Champions Venue

• 1914: July 11, Babe Ruth's Major League Debut as pitcher

• 1914: World Series Champions (Braves) Venue

• 1918: World Series Champions Venue

• 1941: 300 Wins for Lefty Grove

• 1946: Upper deck seats installed

• 1947: Arc lights installed

• 1948: One game in the playoffs, first time in history

• 1975: October 21, Carlton Fisk Home Run

• 1976: Metric measurements added to the field

• 1978: One game in the playoffs, second time in history

• 1979: September 12, Carl Yastrzemski hits 3000

• 1999: Press Boxes added on top of roof boxes

• 2002: Metric measures removed from field

• 2003: More seats added to the Green Monster

• 2004: World Series Champions Venue

• 2005: New sod and new drainage system installed

• 2006: New food concourse added, renovated bathrooms and luxury boxes

• 2007: April 20, 95th Anniversary of Fenway Parks Opening Day

• 2007: World Series Champions Venue

• 2007: New Construction begins for Fenway Park

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