Fenway Park History Tour

Last week, the Indians played in Boston. Pam and Paul, were able to make the trip this year to watch their son play in Fenway Park. To get the full effect, we took an hour long tour through the stadium to hear all about the history behind this amazing stadium. Fenway Park was built in 1912. Many parts have been updated on the inside and outside since then, but a lot of the original charm still remains.

During the beginning of the tour we were able to sit up at the newest addition to the park, the right field deck. The seats in the this deck are painted "fenway green," the tables are shaped like home plate and the seats are shaped like little baseballs. And on a side note, "fenway green" is a patented color...so if you want to paint your bedroom this color you will have to pay a pretty penny. The right field deck seats have been sold out since they opened a few years ago and now the only way to get tickets is through a lottery system that fans enter in January before each season. There are three sections in the stadium where tickets are only available through the lottery....the right field deck, the green monster, and the old "glass section" in the upper deck.

There is a picture below of a Ford sign. And no, I didn't just add this because I used to work for them...there is a cool story behind this picture. If you look straight down from the "d" in Ford you can see a red seat (kind of hard to see from my picture, but you can google it if you really want to see it.) This seat marks the furthest homerun ever hit at Fenway Park by Ted Williams...502 feet! Even better, when the homerun was originally hit there was a Yankee fan sitting there named Joseph A. Boucher. He had decided to take a nap and pulled his straw hat over his face to shield the sun. While he was napping, Williams hit the homerun and it hit the sleeping Yankee fan in the straw hat. It's rumored that after he was hit in Fenway Park that he became a Red Sox fan.

We were able to go to the top of the green monster...which was so cool! There aren't very many seats up there at all...so I'm sure those lottery tickets are pretty expensive. We also learned that every player who has ever played in Fenway has signed the inside of the "Green Monster." And yes, Chris' signature is in there too! Finally, at the end of the tour we went and sat in the main section of the stadium with navy blue seats. These seats were placed in the stadium in 1934. They're wood, and small, and my knees were jammed up against the backs, and my butt was sore, but it was so cool to sit in seats that were over 70 years old. The family tickets were in these seats and by the end of the four game series we were all very thankful that we didn't have to sit there anymore! Ha ha!