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...list of things to see and do in Boston goes on and on. Catch a Red Sox game at historic Fenway Park, featured in the movie Field of Dreams (T: Kenmore, green line). Watch an omnimax film at the Museum of Science (T: Science Park, green line). Or make a visit to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library (T: JFK/UMass, red line...
...February 8, 1993--men's hockey vs. Boston University in the Beanpot championship. The game predated my Crimson days, so I was planted three rows behind the Terrier bench at the old Boston Garden with my roommates. Along with Opening Day at Fenway and the Boston Marathon, the Beanpot makes the city of Boston come to a standstill...
Their home stadium shifted from Boston University (1960-62) to Fenway Park (1963-66) to Boston College (1967-69) before the team played a full year at Harvard...
While it is fine to wax nostalgic about three remaining great old ball yards [SPORT, May 13], including my beloved Fenway Park, and bemoan their inevitable loss, critics should talk with the fans who actually populate those stadiums on game days. As beautiful and charming as Fenway is, its seats are cramped, concessions inadequate and rest rooms too few. The entire place is antiquated. The tradition of the Boston Celtics, along with the team's parquet floor, made the trip from the old Boston Garden--now there is a dump--to the new Fleet Center quite nicely. Fenway's Green...
...Granted, Fenway Park's seats are not La-Z-Boy cushy, and an occasional rodent may be spotted, but it is intimate in a way newer, larger parks are not, and many Boston-area fans are in no rush to scrap baseball history in favor of creature comforts. No matter how well planned or executed, a new park will not hold the history, tradition and purity of the game that live on in the stands and on the field of Fenway. Every visit there holds the echoes of Carl Yastrzemski's 3,000th hit, Carlton Fisk's winning home...