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    Fenway Park
    Fenway Park
    Fenway Park
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    Fenway Park

    By Raymond Sinibaldi

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    In June 1967, Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey declared Fenway Park outdated and stated that without help from the city for a new ballpark, he would consider moving his team. That same year, an impossible dream came true as the 100-1 underdog Red Sox won the pennant and a record-setting 1.7 million fans visited Fenway. Since then, approximately 110 million fans have watched the Red Sox play at what is now called "America's Most Beloved Ballpark." While Fenway Park was once known for simply resembling a warehouse, its nearby streets now hold a baseball festival every game. Those festivals have grown to include concerts, hockey, soccer, and high school football. The exterior walls of the park extoll the accomplishments of each Red Sox World Championship team and fly the banners of Red Sox Hall of Famers since the team's birth in 1901. Red Sox bronzed immortals stand watch at the entrance to Gate B.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArcadia Publishing
    Release dateMar 19, 2018
    ISBN9781439664155
    Fenway Park
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    Raymond Sinibaldi

    Raymond Sinibaldi has lived in Sarasota County since 1986 and taught history in Bradenton for 21 years. A Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) member and baseball historian, as well as the coauthor of Images of Baseball: Fenway Park in 2012, Sinibaldi has tapped the Manatee County Library, the Sarasota History Center, the St. Louis Cardinals, the Boston Public Library, and the Baseball Hall of Fame to tell this remarkable story.

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      INTRODUCTION

      When the Red Sox moved into brand new Fenway Park in April 1912, they were but 11 years old. They had already won back-to-back pennants, captured the first World Series, and endured a season of 105 losses.

      Led by pitcher Smoky Joe Wood and outfielders Tris Speaker, Harry Hooper, and Duffy Lewis, the Red Sox won the 1912 World Series. The addition of Dutch Leonard (1913), Babe Ruth (1914), and Carl Mays (1915) was significant in taking the team to the World Series in 1915, 1916, and 1918 and becoming the American League’s first dynasty.

      Virtually every Red Sox fan knows the story of Babe Ruth and his sale to the Yankees giving birth to the curse. Reality and truth notwithstanding, generations of Red Sox fans came to believe in it, and by the time the Red Sox won their next pennant in 1946, the Yankees had claimed 10 World Series Championships and 14 American League pennants.

      While the 1920s roared in New York, whimpers were coming from Fenway as the Red Sox entered into 15 years of unprecedented futility. Included in this abysmal stretch were the following: 10 seasons (8 in a row) of 90-plus loses, 5 years of more than 100 loses (3 in a row), and the establishment of a still-standing team record of 111 losses in 1932.

      Tom Yawkey rescued them from the abyss when he purchased the team and Fenway Park from Robert Quinn in 1933. The price was $1.25 million. Within three years, he acquired Hall of Famers Rick Ferrell, Lefty Grove, Joe Cronin, and Jimmie Foxx. By the decade’s end, Bobby Doerr and Ted Williams were added to the mix. Although they displayed marked improvement on the field and the Fenway turnstiles spun in record numbers, there remained a clear gap between the Red Sox and the Yankees.

      Simultaneously, Fenway Park was undergoing extensive renovation, which led to the construction of a 37-foot wall in left field. Initially adorned with advertisements, in 1947 the wall was painted green, creating the single most recognizable ballpark feature in all of baseball. Pitchers dubbed it the Green Monster.

      With the onset of World War II, over 500 major leaguers answered their country’s call, leaving baseball’s talent depleted. The euphoria that marked the end of the war was experienced at Fenway Park as well; the 1946 Red Sox had one of the finest years in the history of the franchise, capturing their first pennant since 1918. The World Series, however, eluded them. Heavily favored, the Red Sox dropped Games 6 and 7 to the Cardinals, in St. Louis. It was in Game 7 that Cardinal’s outfielder Enos Country Slaughter’s made his Mad Dash into Red Sox folklore.

      The Red Sox, Yankees, and Indians battled to the last weekend in 1948. The Sox eliminated the Yankees in the next-to-last game, prevailed in the last game, and when the Tigers beat the Indians, a one-game playoff in Fenway was set. The Indians pounded out 13 hits in an 8-3 win, capturing the American League pennant and adding a link in the Red Sox chain of disappointment.

      It was more of the same in 1949 as it also went to the last weekend with the Red Sox taking on New York in Yankee Stadium. They needed one of the last two games, but alas, they lost both. The Red Sox went home, and the Yankees went on to win the World Series, the first of what would be five in a row. In 1950, a late surge found the Red Sox one game behind the Yankees with 12 to go. They then dropped four in a row, stumbled to the gate, and finished in third place. For three straight seasons, the Red Sox and Yankees were, for the first time, competitive rivals.

      The 1950s, like the 1920s, found the teams, once again, going in different directions, and the Red Sox, once again, entered a 15-year span of mediocrity preceding a return to the abyss. A third-place finish in 1958 marked the best year of the stretch, and in 1964, 1965, and 1966, they never climbed higher than eighth place, reaching lows they had not seen since the pre–Tom Yawkey days.

      Then came magical, mystical, enchantingly impossible 1967! With a 100-to-1 shot to take the 1967 pennant, the Cardiac Kids won it on the last day of the season. Yaz and Jim Lonnie Lonborg, George Boomer Scott and Tony Conig Conigliaro, and Rico Petrocelli and Reggie Smith etched their names into Fenway legend. In June of that summer of miracles, Tom Yawkey had gone on record as saying, if the city did not help him in the construction of a new park, he would consider moving the franchise. Come October, Fenway Park was hosting the World Series. This ushered in a new era in Red Sox baseball, and this team is widely recognized as the team that saved the franchise, laying the foundation for what is now known as Red Sox Nation. (See Images of Baseball’s 1967 Red Sox: The Impossible Dream Season.)

      In the 1970s, Fenway witnessed the greatest game in one of the greatest World Series ever played, the fiery return of the Red Sox–Yankee rivalry, another one-game playoff, and the beatification of Carl

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