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...Play ball! Or maybe just watch. The bleachers, the songs, the snacks, the rowdy fans—Fenway is always an adventure. But grab a bite to eat beforehand because not everybody loves ballpark franks. If you don’t know who Pedro is, be sure to brush up on your player stats before embarrassing yourself...
Goldfinger says the $15-20 million ballpark cost includes technology, marketing, course design and development. He adds that he hopes revenues will come from subscribers and industry. HMS also has a potential partnership in the works...
...probably outweigh the nostalgic value of old Fenway. But even though I try, I can't let go. I passed the Save Fenway display in the window of Cambridge Trust on the way to the T and immediately began to miss the dusty tunnels and cramped seating in the ballpark. Obstructed view seats suddenly seem as if they overlook a scenic panorama. Even the dilapidated sign commemorating Roger Clemens two twenty-strikeout games has some nostalgic value...
...even as we Red Sox fans blindly get excited for the beginning of a new season with many of the same old jinxes still hanging over our heads, I know that the time will come when a new ballpark will replace Fenway, and well continue with the inevitable cycle of hope and despair in a different home. It's true that if done well, a new Fenway might be able to retain its uniqueness while also accommodating the demands of space and modernity. The challenge remains for Harrington and his supporters to adjust the competing pulls of history and progress...
Last summer I made an opposite pilgrimage, to the "Tell It Goodbye" celebration at 3COM (ne Candlestick) Park in San Francisco. The folks who brought sushi to the ballpark spent a year praising the faults of their park. They spoke lovingly of the winds that could turn a pop fly into a home run and a homer into a grounder, the need for wool blankets in the stands, the same sort of all-purpose sins of design that stain ballparks in San Diego, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh and beyond...