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...first visited Fenway Park 15 years ago and only remember an enormous green field, no home runs, or even any players. But my second game, a 14-inning thriller, excited me so much that I was convinced sluggers Mo Vaughn and John Valentin had enough magic to win every night. As for Fenway Park itself, what I remember is not even part of the ballpark, but rather the regularly contracting triangle of the CITGO sign that hovered above the green wall only half a mile away...
...Fenway Park tour guide spouting trivia and anecdotes about the U.S.’s oldest ballpark for hundreds of visitors a day, I am feeding my inner fan’s appetite for insider access. Many fans listening to the park’s history are amazed at my luck: I get paid to hang around the very ballpark where the Red Sox have been pitching, homering, and base stealing their way into baseball history and mythology since...
...among all of these considerations stands Fenway Park covered in fence green and contained within its irregular dimensions. Apart from these physical definitions, the most memorable fans on my tour are the ones that value the park more than the players, even if it is the players that draw them there in the first place.. The ballpark’s beauty is truly appreciated through the eyes of a seven-year-old who dashes into the grandstands for the first time, absorbing the enormity of the left-field “Green Monster,” and obsessively staring...
Even as I acknowledge the importance of business to baseball, I know that for some fans, the business won’t matter as long as the park itself endures. For nostalgia follows the excitement of childhood and endures thanks to a building that only leaves traces of its most cherished legends on the retired numbers façade. Robert T. Hamlin ’10 is a Crimson sports editor in Mather House...
...Montoneros were out blowing up buildings and laying the groundwork for Latin America’s bloodiest military dictatorship, the “radicals” in the U.S. were protesting the Vietnam War on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and embracing free love in Golden Gate State Park...