CNN's Don Riddell gets a tour inside the home of the Boston Red Sox. For more CNN videos, check out our RU-vid channel at / cnn Or visit our site at www.cnn.com/video/
I am Argentinian and live in L.A ,absolutely love the Red sox and the history of Fenway . I watch every single Red sox game and one of my dreams is visit Fenway Park to watch a few games, drinks some beers and have good food in those restaurants outside the Stadium. I salute you Red sox Nation !!
I went to a game at Fenway, and the game stopped while they tried to get the biggest rat I had ever seen off the field. It was the size of a small dog. I wouldn't want to be the scoreboard operator stuck behind the wall.
You are more than welcome to, but you will have to wait for next season (April 2022.) Right now as of last night (5 October, 2021) the Red Sox have just made the Wild Card: that means that they are in the playoffs, the tournament that leads up to the World Series. It is not knowable if they will go all the way or if they shall be eliminated, and the weather in Boston is getting colder. It would be best to wait until the weather is warmed up and the skies are blue and get a ticket on Norwegian Air to Boston. Get an Uber to Fenway. She will be 110 years old next year. She is the only remaining ballpark that Babe Ruth ever played in since the original Yankee Stadium was torn down a couple of years ago. It is best to try and see a game (once you learn the rules of baseball first) and THEN go on the tour of the stadium. Oh, and what is not shown here in this video is a statue called "Teammates." It is just outside the ballpark. Dom DiMaggio, Ted Williams, Johnny Pesky, and Bobby Doerr are shown. Only two of them, Pesky and DiMaggio, lived long enough to see the 86 year drought end. Pesky was present when the Red Sox won the World Series in 2004 and this was after a failed attempt of all four of these men to break the curse in the 1940s, just after the war. The team were adamant on bringing the trophy to him and letting him hold it. He was in tears. He literally waited a lifetime for that.
I love Fenway, but I admit that I am worried: the seating capacity is much smaller than the average sized ballpark today. The population of Boston and the country is only going to get bigger. I DO NOT want it torn down, (I would rather have my leg sawn off than sacrifice a piece of my hometown's soul,) but I hope that someday they will take Fenway apart, piece by piece, down to the last bolt on Pesky's Pole, move it across the river or to the outskirts of Boston, cataloguing everything so that not a piece of it goes missing, stretch it out so that there is more room inside and on the top, and very carefully make Fenway II by recycling Fenway I; the essential style of the architecture should remain untouched except for a few upgrades to the sound system and some minor amenities, like mist machines for days that are just so very hot and buggy.
no team sells out every game. the largest of the stadiums are certainly less likely to do so. and even the brand new stadium in atlanta won't have misters. you have nothing to fear. tearing down fenway would be like tearing down the white house.
shadowkitty56 haha this is Boston were talking about here, New England has a serious hard on for its history and in every town there's a historical society that protects every old building, Boston is no exception. If we need a new ballpark we'll build one, no ones gonna be tearing down the old green monster.
