Aa baseball stadium located in Boston. Since 1912, it has been the ballpark of Major League Baseball's Boston Red Sox.

ABOUT THE HISTORICAL PHOTOGRAPHS Beloved old Fenway Park isn't as ancient as we like to think. Even the Green Monster - that infamous left-field wall- didn't appear until the '34 season, when the park was already 22 years old. The original Fenway was built largely of wood in 1912. It burned once in 1926 and again, more seriously) on January 5,1934, while being refurbished by new owner Tom Yawkey. The four":alarm blaze virtually erased the park. We see it being rebuilt in steel and concrete in the older photo. The new one shows it today, with Boston office towers in the background. In the brief era between the two fires, Fenway was even more pungently odd than it is now. Because the left-field bleachers weren't rebuilt after the first fire, a fielder could run behind the third-base grandstand to shag foul flies. That bizarre possibility was cut off by the Green Monster, the terror of pitchers because it is so close to home plate, allowing easy homers or off-the wall doubles. Among today's oversized, standardized, and boring arenas, Fenway is greatly treasured for its intimacy and quirkiness. But it is again in need of renovation and may be replaced by a sports mega palace. Say it ain't so. -Robert Campbell and Peter Vanderwarker, "CITYSCAPES - Fenway Park",Boston Globe, 11 July 1993

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