Comments on: Attention Baseball Fans: Today Is Salute Fenway Park Day!

By: Merrill Dubrow

Merrill Dubrow — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:03:17 +0000

In case anyone is counting. With tonight’s game vs the Florida Marlins the Redsox have now recorded their 500th consecutive sellout in a row!

Congrads to the Boston Redsox and Fenway Park!

Amazing!

By: Merrill Dubrow

Merrill Dubrow — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 12:47:56 +0000

Last weekend I had a chance to go to the Redsox/Toronto game with my a good friend of mine (thanks RH). Even though I have been their hundreds of times it is still a great place to watch a game.

This ownership group has constantly upgraded the facility with better food, creative seating (the monster seats which were recently voted the BEST seats in BASEBALL!

Trust me even if you aren’t a fan of the Redsox or baseball it is worth every penny to see Fenway Park.

Enjoy.

Merrill

By: Bob Graham

Bob Graham — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:40:34 +0000

I grew up a Red Sox fan, but didn’t get to visit Fenway much as a kid. People from Pittsfield (my home town) just didn’t drive to Boston for a game–they didn’t even drive to Springfield unless it was absolutely necessary. But I did manage to see a Red Sox-Yankee game on a Sunday afternoon in July 1960. It was won by a Ted Williams home run in the 7th inning.

Now part of the experience is the arrival at the Park. The walk from the Kenmore Square Station. The way that the Square converges so that people from all directions make the walk up the hill to Yawkee Way. The vendors, the fans all coming together to enter that most holiest of shrines. Europe has their cathedrals, we have Fenway.

I can’t say that I’ve ever seen an “important” history-making-game at Fenway, but as a fan they are all important to me. I remember the time I bought a ticket on game day (obviously a long time ago) and found myself mixed in with a spirited group of fans from New Hampshire who had charted a bus. One of them produced a can of beer and said to me “Hey, Buddy! You’re connected. You want a beea?”

God Bless the Fenway Faithful! Congrats on setting a record for loyalty. But in the meantime, it’s September and we’ve got a pennant to win. Play Ball!

By: Barry Packer

Barry Packer — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 03:44:54 +0000

Merrill,

There was no way that I could not respond here. Having been an avid Red Sox fan for around 40 years—and seeing them in New York and Baltimore and Philadelphia—there is no place like Fenway.

The things I like best are actually its images, its sounds and its smells, all which are so unique.

I have been at so many games at Fenway, and have seen some of the most memorable games; good and bad.

I was there, last August against Tampa, to see Jon Lester’s first home game after his battle with cancer. I was in the bleachers for all four games of the 1978 Boston Massacre, when the Yankees outscored the Sox, 42-9. I have had tickets in the front row by the tarp, behind poles and in the bleachers during an early season game against Detroit, 4 rows in front of Bill Lee (who was adding his own personal view on Don Zimmer).

While I do salute the changes, and am enamoured with the product that is on the field, never mind getting tickets in the Monster Seats; it is difficult enough to sit anywhere.

And, that fact does take me back to the days when you could get to the park 15 minutes before game time, get box seats, pay 25 cents for a program (and another 2 cents for the pencil), get popcorn in the cone shaped cardboard holder with Red Sox printed on it; and as you listened to Sherm Feller tell you to rise for John Kiley playing the National Anthem, you could look out over the screen atop the left field wall (with no advertisements) and see people standing on the Windsor Canadian sign.

I guess the Red Sox have done the best at combining the old and the new. And how can one argue when they keep playing deep into October?

By: Merrill Dubrow

Merrill Dubrow — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:41:50 +0000

Lydia,

Great story. I basically grew up at Fenway Park and attended hundreds of games. I have only got one ball and I didn’t catch it, it kind of bounced my way.

Thanks for sharing.

Merrill

By: Lydia Player

Lydia Player — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:35:12 +0000

My first Fenway experience was this past August and it was a game my 14 year old son will never forget.
We happened to be in Boston for a couple of nights on our way to Maine. The Yankees were playing the Red Sox at Fenway and, of course, he wanted to go. After searching for tickets on line, he figured the best bet was a scalper. As you can imagine, they were asking about $600 a seat. He convinced my husband to take a chance on meeting a scalper near the park about an hour before the game to try to get a deal.
So we were off to Fenway to try our luck. He managed to get $160-a-piece tickets in the non-alcohol section (which seemed like a bonus -given the reputation of some Fenway fans).
The thought of the ticket price disappeared when a foul ball bounced off a light pole at the Green Monster and HE CAUGHT IT BARE-HANDED.
He was as stunned as anyone. A Yankee ball caught in Fenway Park!
He can die happy now.

http://lydiaplayer.blogspot.com/2008/07/baseball-fun.html

By: Adam Jolley

Adam Jolley — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:07:38 +0000

My favorite game was in July of 2004 against the Yankees. We went to Friday night game where Kevin Millar dropped bombs but ultimately Schilling didn’t pitch well and we lost badly. The next day was a day game and the infamous quote from Tek to A-Rod “We don’t hit .260 hitters.” Bill Mueller hit the walk-off against Rivera and my two buddies and I lost it. We spent the next 3 hours roaming around Yawkey ragging on any Yankees fan we saw. Opening day 2005 with Johnny Pesky comes to mind for my favorite moment that I wish I could have been there for.