Fenway Park

The Wall

The Green Monster stands 37 feet, 2 inches tall, 231 feet in length, with the left-field line measured at 310 feet from home plate. It has been rebuilt twice. A fire on January 5, 1934 destroyed the original wooden left-field wall and much of the park; what replaced it was a 37-foot tin wall over wooden railroad ties, and that surface gave way to the current hard plastic in 1976. The manually operated scoreboard still runs by hand, and the initials of owners Thomas A. Yawkey and Jean R. Yawkey are worked into its side in Morse code.

The Ground

The park was built in the Fenway section of Boston, an area named for its many fens — the marshes that were there before the concrete. Osborn Engineering of Cleveland designed it, James McLaughlin the principal architect, and it was one of the first ballparks built not of wood but of concrete. It opened April 20, 1912, the same day as Detroit's Navin Field, five days after the Titanic sank. Center field measures 420 feet from home. The right-field foul pole — known as the Pesky Pole, after Johnny Pesky, who hit some of his few career home runs just inside it — stands 302 feet down the line. The 2026 season is the 115th season of baseball at this park.

The Twelfth

Game 6 of the 1975 World Series. Bernie Carbo, pinch-hitting, hit a three-run homer to tie the game in the eighth inning. In the twelfth, Carlton Fisk hit a solo home run off the left-field foul pole, leaping and waving the ball fair. The park has hosted three All-Star Games — 1946, 1961, and 1999 — and in the right-field bleachers, a single red seat marks the spot 502 feet from home plate where Ted Williams hit a home run in 1946. The Red Sox have played here since the day it opened; the Braves rented the park for stretches of 1914 and 1915 — their 1914 World Series home games were played at Fenway — while Braves Field was built.

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