Hey Check Out Fenway Park!
 

I'll post a few vacation pics for you. On Friday my first tourist stop was a tour of Fenway Paaaaaak. I'll post some pics as the tour went through. Took a little over an hour, and we walked a lot. All over this MFer... These were two of our tour guides. Tall guy was a retired Air Force, short guy talked Royals baseball with me a lot. His all time favorite Sox player is Ortiz. When you walk in there's a memorial to the day the Boston Marathon got bombed. Red Sox had a game that day. Closeup of Green Monster from behind home plate. They're tearing up the field right now, working on it for spring. Visitor's Locker room, where the Royals would dress before the game. Pedro's old locker, moved to visitor's room for the tour.

Next, view from below the press box. It's waaaay up in the sky behind home plate. Then original oak grandstand seats down the first base line. Oldest continually used seats in all of MLB. Display case with stuff from the 1946 Red Sox. First year of real baseball after WWII ended. Bullpen car used from the mid 1960s to Late 1970s to bring relief pitchers in. Old ticket booth used for 75 years. Now it holds Sox historical display inside.

These are cool. When was the last time a cart was used to bring in a relief pitcher?

Now we go up to the Press Box. This is where the newspaper writers sit. So Mellinger for the Star would be up here. Radio room is down the hall. View looking towards right field. See the big skinny tall black building to the right? That was our hotel, 20th floor. It's 60 stories, the top 40 stories are condos. Pesky Pole down the right field line. Sox retired numbers up on the facade of Right Field. The lone red seat in the RF bleachers was where Ted Williams last home run settled.

Im pretty sure those guys are steppin in shit and piss in this pic.


Picture 1 of the first batch.

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Final Stop, top of the Green Monster. Tour guide telling the story of Fisk's 1975 homer vs. Reds in World Series where he waves the ball fair. They have a plaque with the story right next to it. Boston skyline from the top of the Monster. One of the displays with stuff from the 1975 Series.

Most MLB teams had one in the 1970s. It was a thing then.

I went to a game there about a month or two ago. Had no dog in the fight, they played the Orioles. Just thought it was something I should do. I learned I don't actually like baseball, just the Royals, because I was bored out of my mind. I left in the 5th inning.

I thought Camden Yards was a cooler stadium if I had to be honest.

I've been to Fenway once for a Red Sox Yankees game at it was crazy. That stadium is one crazy antique.

Real cool photos and looks like you had a blast during the tour.

Hope you planted some steroids in a few of the players locker.

Cool thread and pics!

Did they talk about filming the movie “The Town” there?

I used to do a lot of business in the Boston area. Was at Fenway when the Oakland A s were in town and Mark McGwire hit three home runs.
I remember wondering why they kept pitching to him.

My rep had provided the tickets and they were inside, right behind home plate. John Hancock 700 club or something like that. I still have the program from that game.

Paaaaaaahk

Historic stadium. Looks like the tour might have been more enjoyable another time of year.

Cool. My wife and ten year old took that tour in October. They loved it.

I went to a game there in April. I was amazed at how small it is and how it tucks into the neighborhood there. Very cool place though.

This tour was one of the best things I did on my trip to Boston in 2013. I was on a work trip and convinced my crew that we should do the last Fenway Tour before the ALCS started. It was amazing. Couldn't go into the locker rooms, but the stadium was decked out, lights were on, they were practicing the national anthem and both teams were there. Detroit was BP. When we walled in the guide says if you need to go to the bathroom do it now, so I headed down to the mens room with a co-worker. On our we passed Justin Verlander, who was going to do a photo shoot for TBS. Then on our way back we passed Torii Hunter. Then when out on the Green Monster Cabrera started taking BP, so I just hung out there for a while. It was incredible.

Boston Strong - forgot that it was close to that bombing.

2013 ALCS would have been about 6 months after the Boston Marathon Bombing. The bombing occurred several miles away from Fenway though.

The Nationals & Diamondbacks (maybe others) currently have bullpen carts & some of the pitchers do use them.

Boston Marathon bombing was by the Boston Public Library on Boylston St, very close to where our hotel was.

Yea I was there for the marathon in April. Those monuments on Boylston are kind of eerie. Amazing more people weren't hurt.

Boston strong

I know a young lady that ran it it when it occurred, she had already finished the race and was in an eating establishment when it happened fortunately.

It's Fenway Pahk--not Paaaaak as if it's a long vowel "a" sound. Takes time to learn a new language. Don't forget to add an "er" at the end of words that end in the vowel "a." Like Tamper instead of Tampa.

That's where my studio was once located...right there in Copley Square. Used to step out to watch part of the Marathon's ending.

How was the traffic? I hear it is outrageously bad these days.

Yeah, but that's not all that far at 1.4 miles. I used to walk it when in school. My first school was practically next door to FP a block away and my 2nd school had a building across the street from it for a period of time where I had some classes.

I grew up there, went to college there, worked my early professional years there, walked by Fenway Park more than you can count, went to games as a young teen and dated a guy who was friends with a Detroit pitcher who we hung out with after a game--and I've NEVER been on a tour of it. :(

I’ve never been on a stadium tour either. Not sure I would. But my wife and son were out there visiting family and they decided to do it. Said it was really worthwhile and enjoyable. So, maybe if I’m ever in Boston again, I’ll take the plunge.

Based on what I am seeing here, it sure looks like it. I was lamenting not having done so. When you're a local you take it for granted. Heck, I only did the Freedom Trail one month before moving South as I knew I'd not have another chance easily.

Yes, they did. There were several movies filmed in Fenway. The scene where Kevin Costner and James Earl Jones go to a game in Field of Dreams, Brad Pitt in Money Ball sat in the seat the guy in the red had was in on that Press Box Picture, Jimmy Fallon in a movie was down on the left field line, and "The Town" was the movie where Fenway got robbed of the gate receipts. That was down right where they first take you inside for the tour. They showed us all that stuff.

Yah, the Red Sox are closely tied to the Marathon and Patriots Day. They play early in the day (starting around 11 am first pitch) and when the game is over folks can enjoy the marathon.