{"id":21818,"date":"2024-10-19T03:28:58","date_gmt":"2024-10-19T09:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=21818"},"modified":"2024-09-03T14:06:36","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T20:06:36","slug":"ballpark-tour-red-sox-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/ballpark-tour-red-sox-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballpark Tour: Red Sox"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>With the offseason underway, we continue our tour of all of the different baseball stadiums I\u2019ve been to over the years. This week, we look at the Boston Red Sox, owners of the oldest stadium in Major League Baseball. So, without further ado, let\u2019s take a deeper look at my one game history with Fenway Park.<\/p>\n

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Stadium Name:<\/strong>\u00a0Fenway Park<\/p>\n

Years in Service:<\/strong>\u00a01912 \u2013 Present<\/p>\n

Visits:<\/strong>\u00a01<\/p>\n

In 1911, Red Sox owner\u00a0John I. Taylor\u00a0purchased 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.\u00a0 The first game was played April 20, 1912, as the Red Sox defeated the\u00a0New York Highlanders, who would become the Yankees the following year, 7-6 in 11 innings.<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0 The hope was that Angelina would be moving into Boston University around that time, but her gap year put a kibosh on that.\u00a0 The ballpark was\u2026 a little underwhelming. \u00a0From the outside, you could barely tell that it was a stadium. \u00a0Michael even asked where it was as we were standing outside it.<\/p>\n

The game went about as you would expect. \u00a0With James Shields on the mound, the White Sox did not put up much of a fight. \u00a0We were sitting down the left field line, with a good view of the Green Monster. \u00a0The seats, which may or may not date back to the stadium\u2019s 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 into the seats in front of us.<\/p>\n

I would have added an additional game or two in 2020, as the plan was to take Michael to Boston for his birthday and enjoy the monster seats, but a little global pandemic got in that way of that.\u00a0 Now that Angelina is done with school and working full time in Boston, there is still an opportunity to increase my number of visits in the years to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the offseason underway, we continue our tour of all of the different baseball stadiums I\u2019ve been to over the years. This week, we look at the Boston Red Sox, owners of the oldest stadium in Major League Baseball. So, without further ado, let\u2019s take a deeper look at my one game history with Fenway […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[275,8110,8844,298,1663,8432,5652,8431,1522,2244,258,49,51],"class_list":["post-21818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-arm","tag-boston-university","tag-corona-virus","tag-dlm","tag-fenway-park","tag-highlanders","tag-james-shields","tag-john-i-taylor","tag-mdm","tag-mlb","tag-red-sox","tag-white-sox","tag-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21818"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21877,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21818\/revisions\/21877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}