Happy 100th Birthday Fenway park

[The Wiser Hatter]

 

[dhermann1]

I lived in Boston for a whole year in 1970 and never made it to Fenway, for which I shall always kick myself. Fenway is one of the many wonderful things that make Boston such a wonderful and unique city. I've always said that every American should visit Boston at least once in their life. Wonderful wonderful city. Fenway, a wonderful wonderful place to watch the American pastime.
BTW, if you enlarge the view to 400% you'll see tons and tons of great detail in these excellent images.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Even despite all the modern gimcrackery that's been pasted onto it over the last twenty years it's still a place where you can watch a ball game the way a ball game should be watched -- surrounded by people who actually know what's going on on the field. I get down there as often as I can, and win or lose it's always a great experience.

It's a real shame Tiger Stadium in Detroit didn't live to see this day -- this would be its 100th anniversary as well.

 

[kaiser]

It's a real shame Tiger Stadium in Detroit didn't live to see this day -- this would be its 100th anniversary as well.

Good point Lizzie, I went to Tiger Stadium a number of times back in the 1980's a must say it was a grand old place. A classical ball park, and a proper place to watch a good ball game.

 

[LizzieMaine]

92-year-old Johnny Pesky and 93-year-old Bobby Doerr, the last surviving regulars from the great Sox teams of the 1940s, are wheeled out to their old positions at shortstop and second base by Jason Varitek and Tim Wakefield, two recently-retired veterans of the 2004/2007 World Champion Sox. There wasn't a dry eye in the house, or anywhere else in New England.