With the offseason underway, we continue our tour of all of the different baseball stadiums I’ve been to over the years. This week, we look at the Boston Red Sox, owners of the oldest stadium in MLB. So, without further ado, let’s take a deeper look at my one game history with Fenway Park.
Stadium Name: Fenway Park
Years in Service: 1912 – Present
Visits: 1
In 1911, Red Sox owner John I. Taylor purchased the land bordered by Brookline Avenue, Jersey Street, Van Ness Street and Lansdowne Street and developed it into a larger baseball stadium, which he named after the Fenway neighborhood where it was located. The first game was played April 20, 1912, as the Red Sox defeated the New York Highlanders, who would become the Yankees the following year, 7-6 in 11 innings.
I attended my first (and, so far, only) game at Fenway Park in August of 2017, cashing in my birthday gift from the year before. The hope was that Angelina would be moving in to Boston University around that time, but her gap year put a kibosh on that. The ballpark was… a little underwhelming. From the outside, you could barely tell that it was a stadium. Michael even asked where it was as we were standing outside it.
The game went about as you would expect. With James Shields on the mound, the White Sox did not put up much of a fight. We were sitting down the left field line, with a good view of the Green Monster. The seats, which may or may not date back to the stadium’s opening in 1912, were not really designed for people well over 6 feet tall, so there was a lot of uncomfortable shifting as Danny and my knees were smooshed in to the seats in front of us.
With Angelina now ensconced at BU, I hope to increase my number of visits in the years to come, especially with the White Sox making an early April appearance next season.
