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EPA award; Renovation is ultimate in recycling http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/apr2008/2008-04-25-091.asp Red Sox Recognized for Greening Fenway Park BOSTON, Massachusetts, April 25, 2008 (ENS) - Historic Fenway Park - home of the World Champion Boston Red Sox - is getting greener. The work to address environmental issues at the 96 year old baseball stadium has earned an "Environmental Merit Award" for excellence from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA. The award, presented by the EPA to both the Natural Resources Defens ....
Coke Bottles Removed from Light Tower Red Sox unveil 'Coca-Cola Corner' 03/03/2008 4:30 PM ET By Mike Petraglia / Special to MLB.com The re-making of Fenway Park continues. On Monday, the Red Sox and Coca-Cola unveiled the "Coca-Cola Corner," a new family-friendly seating and hospitality area of Fenway Park for the 2008 season. The unique area will add more than 412 new seats to Fenway, and is part of the extension and expansion of the Red Sox's partnership with Coca-Cola, the official soft drink of the Boston Red Sob....
Fenway and Wrigley, Baseball Prospectus' Faves (but where's Tiger?) April 13, 2007 Prospectus Matchups The Masses Rejoice! by Jim Baker Today we're presenting the results of the sports venue architecture poll that was introduced in my column of March 16. I asked would-be participants to rank--from an architectural standpoint--their favorite existing sports venues (not just baseball), their favorite defunct or no-longer-extant venues, as well as their least favorite. For the favorite poll, points were given on a 7-5-3-2-1 basis. For the other two, it ....
"Year VI Improvements" Red Sox outline "Year VI Improvements" for Fenway Park's 95th anniversary, 01/24/2007, 4:05 PM ET, http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/press_releases/press_release.jsp?ymd=20070124&content_id=1785536&vkey=pr_bos&fext=.jsp&c_id=bos BOSTON -- The Boston Red Sox today announced their plans to improve Fenway Park for the 2007 season, the 95th Anniversary of "America's Most Beloved Ballpark." The club has engaged in a series of annual improvements since the ownership group of J ....
More Room Means More Fans in Fenway More room means more fans in Fenway, By Jimmy Golen, AP Sports Writer, January 24, 2007, http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2007/01/24/more_room_means_more_fans_in_fenway/ BOSTON --The Boston Red Sox will be able to squeeze several hundred more fans into Fenway Park for each game this season thanks to another winter of improvements that allow the team to increase the ballpark's legal capacity. Although some of the changes won't be visible to Fenway patrons, th ....
Fenway Park Gets Annual Tuneup http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070124&content_id=1785718&vkey=news_bos&fext=.jsp&c_id=bos Fenway Park Gets Annual Tuneup : Club continues commitment to upgrading historic stadium, 01/24/2007 7:00 PM ET, By Ian Browne / MLB.com BOSTON -- Just five years from its 100th birthday, Fenway Park somehow continues to feel and look younger instead of older. The Red Sox on Wednesday unveiled their latest batch of ballpark improvements, nearly all of which ....
ESPN Ranks Fenway as #1 Ballpark Fenway -- all about 'the history and the tradition,' Thursday, January 11, 2007, By Tim Kurkjian,ESPN The Magazine, http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/hotstove06/columns/story?columnist=kurkjian_tim&id=2725532 Former major league pitcher Ed Farmer went to fabled Fenway Park for the first time in 1971. "I thought it was a warehouse, I thought 'there must be a real little ballpark in there somewhere,' '' he said. "But even today, when I go through those doors, reality stays outsi ....
Department of Selective Memory: Harrington and Renovation http://business.bostonherald.com/businessNews/view.bg?articleid=165480 'Let‘s strike up a deal: Harrington ready for new pitch,' By Scott Van Voorhis, Boston Herald Business Reporter Friday, November 3, 2006 - Updated: 07:03 AM EST John Harrington, a sometimes controversial figure from Red Sox history, is back in the saddle, launching a new career as a sports business dealmaker. Harrington, who ran the Red Sox from 1987 to 2002, will serve as a principal in a new venture of ....
Save Boston "...Not long ago, the Save Fenway crowd looked like crazies. The crazies turned out to be right. Who now will save Boston?..." 'Save Boston,' By Steve Bailey, Boston Globe Columnist / August 18, 2006 http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2006/08/18/save_boston/ The Yankees come to town today for the most critical series of the season. Whether our Sox can compete, we'll know soon enough. But this much I already know: Fenway Park, given up for dead by the previous owners, has n ....
Profile -- Janet Marie Smith PROFILE: A League of Her Own: Remember when Fenway Park felt crusty, creaky, and unsafe? The woman behind its extreme makeover isn't done yet. By Brian MacQuarrie, August 13, 2006, The Boston Globe http://www.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2006/08/13/a_league_of_her_own/ Janet Marie Smith, the architect transforming Fenway Park, works in an office that, at first glance, could be confused with a large storage closet. But look again, past the clutter and the mementos, an ....
Interview with Janet Marie Smith Planner has a ball revamping Fenway Q&A with Janet Marie Smith Boston Herald, Tuesday, August 1, 2006 http://business.bostonherald.com/womensBusiness/view.bg?articleid=150787 Throughout her interview, Janet Marie Smith talks about the team of constituents — the owners, the fans, the staff from ushers to the front office, the architects, engineers and project managers — and how she doesn’t think of herself as someone to be in the spotlight. But the Red Sox SVP of planning and ....
Janet Marie Smith, the Red Sox's Most Valuable Planner DOWNTOWN Boston sampler By Steve Bailey, Boston Globe Columnist / July 5, 2006 / http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2006/07/05/boston_sampler/ Janet Marie Smith, the Red Sox's Most Valuable Planner, and her bosses continue to make the Sox's former owners, who tried to bulldoze Fenway Park, look like knuckleheads. The latest twist in Smith's marvelous reinvention of Fenway: the Bleacher Bar, a restaurant in centerfield that will look out onto Fenway Park -- and you won't eve.....
Squeeze Play? Charming Old Fenway... The New York Times, June 4, 2006. "Squeeze Play? Charming Old Fenway May Have Become A Cash Machine, But Red Sox Fans Shouldn't Feel Fleeced: Theirs Might Be the Best Run Franchise in Baseball." By JOSEPH NOCERA. In the late 1990's, the word went out to Red Sox Nation: Fenway Park was doomed. Yes, it was one of most celebrated temples in all of sports, but it was nearly 90 years old, with fewer than 35,000 seats, and utterly inadequate, its owners said, to meet the demands of a mo ....
Renovation Photos Go to link for CBS TV4 photos and stories -- scroll down a bit for the start: http://cbs4boston.com/slideshows/local_slideshow_095142628/view?slide=0 ....
Fenway's Changes Await Public's Eye April 5, 2006. 5:00 PM ET Fenway's changes await public's eye -- Mayor Menino impressed by ballpark's offseason renovations By Mike Petraglia / Special to MLB.com http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20060405&content_id=1385226&vkey=news_bos&fext=.jsp&c_id=bos BOSTON -- Snow flurries and blustery conditions on Wednesday didn't keep construction workers from working hard to make sure Fenway Park is ready for business when gates open for the Red Sox ho ....
Fenway Renovations on Schedule http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20060208&content_id=1308754&vkey=news_bos&fext=.jsp&c_id=bos Fenway renovations on schedule 02/08/2006 5:16 PM ET By Mike Shalin / Special to MLB.com BOSTON -- With the home opener some 62 days away, Fenway Park currently looks anything like a stadium that will host the Red Sox and Toronto Blue Jays on April 11. But mark this down: The old place will be ready, complete with all kinds of new stuff. The Red Sox, in the ....
.406/600 Club No More Home run at Fenway: Sox get renovations right By Steve Buckley, Boston Herald General Sports Columnist Thursday, February 9, 2006 - Updated: 01:45 AM EST It has been an offseason of gorilla costumes, trumped-up job titles and nine-page press releases for the loony-tunes Red Sox. We’re talking conspiracies and dime-dropping and behind-the-scenes finger-pointing here, with things getting so bad that the owner, John Henry, went on the radio and said he was shocked that the team h ....
February Renovations http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2006/02/08/changes_seen_as_striking/ Changes Seen as Striking By Stan Grossfeld, Boston Globe Staff February 8, 2006 The electricians scurrying around Fenway Park have already had a sneak preview of Red Sox Baseball 2006. ''Bronson Arroyo was right there signing baseballs and playing catch with a new recruit by the Red Sox dugout," said Arny Crane of Local 7. ''One of the guys was up here in the EMC club [formerly the .406 ....
Renovation Spurs Development http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/12/17/red_sox_making_deals____for_property_around_fenway_park/ The Associated Press Red Sox making deals -- for property around Fenway Park By Ken Maguire, Associated Press Writer | December 17, 2005 BOSTON --The Red Sox have been busy making deals they say will help the team for years to come. "We just want to protect our investment," said Janet Marie Smith, the team's senior vice president of planning and developm ....
Fenway Park and Other Sacred Secular Spaces http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/12/04/holy_hubs_hot_spots/ The Boston Globe THE OBSERVER Holy Hub's hot spots Fenway Park and other sacred secular spaces By Sam Allis, Boston Globe Columnist, December 4, 2005 (Correction: Because of a reporting error, Sunday's Observer column identified I. M. Pei as the designer of the John Hancock Tower. The work was done by his firm, then called I. M. Pei & Partners, but Henry Cobb did the design.) I see the Boston Society ....
Upgrades Begin at Fenway Park http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20051014&content_id=1249773&vkey=news_bos&fext=.jsp&c_id=bos Upgrades begin at Fenway Park 10/14/2005 3:00 PM ET By Ian Browne / MLB.com BOSTON -- The latest modernization of 93-year-old Fenway Park was symbolized late Friday morning by, of all things, some shattering of glass. In unveiling the beginning stages of the new club seats that will be spread around the yard in 2006, the Red Sox officially bid adieu to the lar.....
.406 Club is No More http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2005/10/15/opening_day_for_renovations/ Opening day for renovations Maligned .406 Club is the first to go at Fenway By Sasha Talcott, Boston Globe Staff | October 15, 2005 They smashed the glass with a cement baseball. And, just to be sure, they smashed it again. The Red Sox yesterday brought an official end to the much-maligned .406 Club at Fenway Park, as the team started work on the most extensive renovations to the ballpar ....
Sox Will Help Plan Area Near Ballpark http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2005/09/14/sox_will_help_plan_area_near_ballpark/ Sox will help plan area near ballpark Team may become partner in retail or office projects By Thomas C. Palmer Jr., Boston Globe Staff | September 14, 2005 Now committed to staying at Fenway Park, the Boston Red Sox could become a partner in the commercial and retail redevelopment of the Kenmore Square area, according to the team's chief architect, Janet Marie Smith. It is unlikely the wy....
Sox are Honored for Fenway's Preservation http://www.boston.com/realestate/articles/2005/07/09/faithful_to_fenway/ Faithful to Fenway Sox are honored for winning efforts to preserve the 93-year-old ballpark By Emily Shartin, Globe Staff | July 9, 2005 The Red Sox may have just won baseball's most coveted prize, but ever since the team formally declared its plans to make Fenway Park its permanent home, it has been winning off-the-field recognition for its efforts to preserve the 93-year-old ballpark and help revita ....
Help Save the Stadium May 8, 2005. On baseball, Phil Miller, Salt Lake Tribune Columnist, Salt Lake Tribune. http://www.sltrib.com/search/ci_2722026 Where's all the outrage? With the Yankees drowning in last place, this is going to sound like just another Red Sox fan eagerly piling on. But hear me out: Yankee Stadium stinks. It's awful. Cramped, dirty and often inhospitable, with the most claustrophobic concourses in baseball, the House that Ruth Built is about as vibrant as Ruth h ....
Changes to .406 Club After 2005 Season Red Sox detail plans for new Pavilion Level 04/16/2005 10:42 AM ET Boston Red Sox Press Release BOSTON -- As part of their long-term commitment to Fenway Park, the Boston Red Sox today detailed plans for the creation of four new seating "neighborhoods" that will be developed in America's Most Beloved Ballpark starting in the 2006 season. The improvements will come in phases over a three-year period. Today's announcement follows the March 23 declaration by Principal Owner Jos....
Society of American Baseball Research (SABR) on Renovation of Fenway http://www.businessofbaseball.com/relo.htm Fenway Park As of April of 2005, Fenway Park is in the midst of a new phase of renovations to the historic facility. Initial changes involved the addition of seating atop the Green Monster in left field, and in more recent changes a total of 1,500 seats along the first and third baselines, additional concessions and bathrooms were added. This winter, Fenway's playing surface was completely dug up and replaced for the first time since ....
Fenway: A Hard-Earned Save Fenway: A Hard-Earned Save By PATRICK PINNELL, April 3, 2005, Hartford Courant. http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/commentary/hcplcpinnell0403.artapr03,0,2558546.story When the owners of the Boston Red Sox announced last week that the team would remain in Fenway Park, the news was widely received as good but a foregone conclusion. The Sox not in Fenway? No, no way; not after the team's first World Series victory since witches were still being burned in Salem. Well ....
This Old Ballpark No real plot twist to new episode of This Old Ballpark, By Michael Gee, Boston Herald, Thursday, March 24, 2005. http://sports.bostonherald.com/sportsColumnists/view.bg?articleid=74817 The Red Sox will stay at Fenway Park. The franchise's management knows a sure thing when it stares them in the face. The above paragraph was sincere, not snarky. Many businesses come to grief plunging into grandiose schemes inspired by the egos of their top execs. John Henry, Tom Wern.....
Red Sox Make Commitment to Fenway Park Sox make commitment to Fenway Park 03/23/2005 12:34 PM ET Boston Red Sox Press Release http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/press_releases/press_release.jsp?ymd=20050323&content_id=974608&vkey=pr_bos&fext=.jsp&c_id=bos BOSTON, MA -- The leaders of the Boston Red Sox today committed to remain long-term at Fenway Park, America's most beloved ballpark. Principal Owner John W. Henry, Chairman Tom Werner, and President/CEO Larry Lucchino made the long-awaited declarat ....
Boston Herald Editorial A great ballpark, a good neighbor, by Boston Herald editorial staff, Thursday, March 24, 2005 - Updated: 01:25 AM EST http://news.bostonherald.com/opinion/view.bg?articleid=74806 If there's a downside to the Red Sox' plans to stay at Fenway Park (and this being Boston everyone's looking for one), we sure can't find it. ``This is a no-strings-attached commitment,'' said team president Larry Lucchino yesterday, leaving not a lot of wiggle room. And so, as owner John .....
POP THE CORK! Fenway Park fits Sox plans: Numbers, not emotion, pushed call to overhaul, by Scott Van Voorhis, Boston Herald. Thursday, March 24, 2005 - Updated: 01:49 AM EST http://business.bostonherald.com/businessNews/view.bg?articleid=74816 Eyed for demolition just a few years ago, historic Fenway Park will survive for years, if not generations to come, team owners said yesterday in a long-expected announcement on the ballpark's future. ``It's an historic occasion for all of u'....
HOLY MOLEY Sox at (old) home -- Players back plan to stay at Fenway. By Jeff Horrigan, Boston Herald. Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - Updated: 06:22 AM EST http://redsox.bostonherald.com/redSox/view.bg?articleid=74646&format=text FORT MYERS - Word that the Red Sox [stats, schedule] plan to remain at Fenway Park for the foreseeable future was met by players yesterday with the same enthusiasm as news that a superstar had agreed to a long-term contract. The organization will offici ....
THIS JUST IN.... Red Sox planning to remain at Fenway: Launching effort to revitalize area By Steve Bailey and Sasha Talcott, Boston Globe Staff, March 22, 2005. http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2005/03/22/red_sox_planning_to_remain_at_fenway/ The Boston Red Sox tomorrow will announce that the team is staying put in Fenway Park, baseball's oldest and smallest stadium. The announcement marks the beginining of an effort to revitalize the neighborhood that is later expecte ....
What’s New at Fenway this Season FENWAY PARK INSIDER What’s new at Fenway this season. The rush is on to get the ballpark ready for April, By David Ropeik, Boston.com Correspondent, March 16, 2005 http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2005/03/16/what146s_new_at_fenway_this_season/ While most of Red Sox Nation is paying attention to Florida and spring training, a small army of construction workers at Fenway Park is racing to finish the changes that started just a couple weeks after las ....
Sox Consider Buying Properties Near Fenway Fenway buying continues: Red Sox want garage as part of expansion, area improvement By Scott Van Voorhis, Boston Herald Wednesday, March 9, 2005 http://business.bostonherald.com/businessNews/view.bg?articleid=72330 The Boston Red Sox are in discussions to buy a second building near Fenway Park - part of a larger plan by Sox brass to snap up real estate on the streets around the home of the World Series champs. On the heels of confirming a deal to buy the run-down W.....
Red Sox Seek More Sites Near Fenway Red Sox seek more sites near Fenway: In talks for 3 properties in an area ripe for change By Steve Bailey, Boston Globe Staff, March 9, 2005 http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2005/03/09/red_sox_seek_more_sites_near_fenway/ The Fenway neighborhood is suddenly one of the hottest development plays in Boston, with the Boston Red Sox themselves quietly attempting to scoop up properties as they move aggressively to secure their long-term future in Fenway Park. The Red Sox con ....
More Expansion Eyed at Fenway More expansion eyed at Fenway: Plan adds seats, replaces .406 Club By Thomas C. Palmer Jr., Boston Globe Staff, February 10, 2005 http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2005/02/10/more_expansion_eyed_at_fenway/ The glassed-in .406 Club at Fenway Park, blamed by Red Sox hitters for hindering their ability to hit home runs after it was constructed behind home plate in 1989, will be overhauled next year under a proposal filed by the team with city officials. Propose ....
Sox Propose Adding Premium Seats Sox adding premium seats Ballpark upgrade to include new area called the Pavilion By Thomas C. Palmer Jr., Boston Globe Staff http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2005/01/28/sox_adding_premium_seats/ January 28, 2005 The Boston Red Sox next week will disclose details of Fenway Park improvements planned for the next two seasons, including the addition in 2006 of a new category of premium seats in an area that will be called the Pavilion. Larry Lucchino, president o ....
Plans for Year-Round Use at Fenway Sox make off-season pitch Owners mull attractions to draw fans to Fenway -- even in winter By Thomas C. Palmer Jr., Boston Globe Staff December 16, 2004 Red Sox executives are considering creating a hall of fame or museum at Fenway Park to help keep the fever going, and cash flowing, all year long. Aggressive about increasing revenues as well as improving the fan's ballpark experience, the owners of the world champions have already opened up two adjacent buildings, adding con/....
Fenway Park Improvements Aren't Renovations Fenway Park improvements aren't renovations By Scott Van Voorhis Thursday, December 16, 2004 After three years of constant upgrades to antique Fenway Park, the Boston Red Sox still can't offer a definitive, long-term commitment to the 1912 ballpark, the team's top development chief and architectural guru said yesterday. The team has added hundreds of seats since financier John Henry and a group of partners took over the Sox in early 2002. The amount of usable space in Maj=....
Sox Roll Out Third Round of Plans for Fenway Improvements http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2004/11/24/making_fenway_bright/ Making Fenway bright Trees, lamps, eatery in makeover plans By Megan Tench, Boston Globe Staff | November 24, 2004 Red Sox officials want to extend a festive atmosphere around Fenway Park, sprucing up the drab Gate E into a grand entrance and running a restaurant that would help give the street a look recalling the 1920s. With Yawkey Way -- and its pizza joints, concessionaires, and merchandise hy....
Improved Drainage and more at Fenway http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/bos/news/bos_news.jsp?ymd=20041123&content_id=916017&vkey=news_bos&fext=.jsp Fenway undergoes a face-lift 11/23/2004 3:59 PM ET By Mike Petraglia / Special to MLB.com BOSTON -- Fenway Park will never look the same. And that's a good thing. Whether it's the players on the field, the coaches in the dugout or the fans in the stands, the oldest park in the Majors will have a totally new feel in 2005 after what team officials are calling ....
SABR Interview with Janet Marie Smith, Red Sox Vice President of Planning and Development Interview conducted September 22, 2004, by Maury Brown of SABR (Society of American Baseball Research), Business of Baseball Committee http://www.businessofbaseball.com/JMS_interview.htm Janet Marie Smith If there needed to be one word to describe Janet Marie Smith, maybe the word to use would be “versatile.” The three major MLB facilities that she has played a part in planning and developing could not be more different or more visible. She has served as President of Turner Spor ....
Preliminary Approvals for Fenway Additions Red Sox seek approval to expand Fenway capacity by 10% By Chris Reidy, Boston Globe Staff | October 27, 2004 The Red Sox yesterday received preliminary approval from the Boston Landmarks Commission to expand Fenway Park's capacity by 10 percent, presenting the club's most specific designs yet on how it would add about 1,000 seats as well as extra standing room. Although the ball club requested increasing Fenway's capacity from 36,298 to 39,928, the team's plans would not immediatel ....
Lansdowne Street Improvements Fenway street will get $1.2m face lift Lansdowne plan aims to make road pedestrian friendly By Thomas C. Palmer Jr., Boston Globe Staff October 19, 2004 Mayor Thomas M. Menino said yesterday that Lansdowne Street, behind Fenway Park's left-field wall and home to popular clubs like Jillian's and Avalon, will undergo $1.2 million in improvements over the next two years. The dingy thoroughfare will be brighter and friendlier -- even available for outdoor cafe-style seating, ....
WBUR Radio 'Anatomy of a Ballpark' http://www.theconnection.org/shows/2004/09/20040913_b_main.asp Aired September 13, 2004, WBUR Radio 90.0 FM, Boston It's been called a shrine, for that worship at the altar of America's game, but the best description of that ten acre plot tucked in the heart of Boston comes from the writer, John Updike. "A little lyrical bandbox of a ballpark," he says of Fenway, "a compromise between man's Euclidean determinations and nature's beguiling irregularities." Built in 1912, Fenway Park ....
Citgo Sign to Undergo Renovation in Time for Playoffs Sign repairs will not leave Fenway Faithful in the dark By Associated Press Tuesday, September 28, 2004 BOSTON - The Citgo sign familiar to Red Sox fans is undergoing a makeover, but the work won't leave the Fenway Faithful in the dark. Citgo Petroleum Corp. says renovation work on the Kenmore Square landmark, visible beyond Fenway Park's ``Green Monster'' left field wall, began Monday - on the side facing away from the ballpark. The entire 60-by-60 foot panel will be remo ....
Boston Globe Editorial Faithful Fenway September 18, 2004 http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2004/09/18/faithful_fenway/ WHATEVER HAPPENS in the rest of this baseball season, the Red Sox have already accomplished something their opponents this weekend, the New York Yankees, never have: They sold every ticket for every home game in a season. The club announced this feat Wednesday at the same time it said it would like to expand Fenway Park substantially while keeping capacity be ....
Red Sox Look to Add Up to 2,000 Seats Red Sox look to add up to 2,000 seats By Christopher Rowland, Boston Globe Staff September 16, 2004 http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2004/09/16/red_sox_look_to_add_up_to_2000_seats/ Boston Red Sox officials said yesterday they are preparing to launch one of the most dramatic and sizable expansions Fenway Park has ever seen, adding as many as 2,000 seats to the beloved antique that is the smallest stadium in Major League Baseball. Although team officials re ....
Field of Dreams - Cityscapes Boston Globe Magazine August 29, 2004 FIELD OF DREAMS (INSPIRATIONS / CITYSCAPES) ROBERT CAMPBELL AND PETER VANDERWARKER (article poster's note: n.b. photos are not online with the article, but, the 1909 photo mentioned can be viewed at the wonderful Boston Public Library site, 'Sports Temples of Boston' at http://www.bpl.org/sportstemples/results.asp?page=3) Fenway Park, unlike other sports venues, is not an aloof stadium surrounded by a desolate tundra of parking. It's ....
More Seats Proposed by Henry Fan-nies: Henry pushing more seats at Fenway By Scott Van Voorhis Boston Herald Wednesday, September 1, 2004 http://business.bostonherald.com/businessNews/view.bg?articleid=42286 Chief Red Sox owner John Henry gave a ringing endorsement yesterday to adding thousands of seats to antique Fenway Park, and said he hopes to have a renovation plan hammered out in weeks.       However, the Wall Street financier and principal investor in the Sox ownership group also indicated that this b ....
'Entertainment' at the ballpark http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2004/07/27/now_ithat146si_entertainment/ FENWAY PARK INSIDER Now that’s entertainment By David Ropeik, Boston.com Correspondent | July 27, 2004 Editor's note: This is the second in a periodic series of articles bringing you an inside look at the Red Sox and Fenway Park. For more, check out the rail on the right of this article or the “Fenway insider” portion of the Red Sox Nation Fan Zone section on our Red Sox index. S ....
The Belly of The Monster Sights and sounds from baseball's most famous scoreboard By David Ropeik, Boston.com Correspondent | July 12, 2004 http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2004/07/12/the_belly_of_the_monster/ Editor's note: This is the first of a series of articles bringing you an inside look at the Red Sox and Fenway Park. The belly of the Monster is no place to be if you want beer with your ballgame, or a hotdog, or a bathroom to use, or a breeze. But if you want one of the best v ....
Modern Renovations Enhance Fenway's Traditional Charm By George Mitrovich/ As You Were Saying . . . Boston Herald, Saturday, July 10, 2004 Recently I returned to Fenway Park. It was my first time to see the new seats atop the right-field roof. Amazingly, they looked as though they had always been there. On a previous visit I had taken photos of the famous ballpark. Where the right-field roof seats are now, there was a giant milk bottle right above the uniform numbers of Hall of Famers. The milk bottle, a ....
Save Fenway Seat Plan May Lead Way for Team By Scott Van Voorhis Boston Herald Friday, May 28, 2004 A blueprint drawn up four years ago to save Fenway Park from the wrecking ball could get dusted off as Red Sox executives explore plans to add thousands of seats to the antique ballpark. Sox executives are looking to add a few thousand seats to baseball's oldest and smallest ballpark. But they've also ruled out a massive upper deck - raising questions about where the extra seats would go.
Fenway Could Be Tops in Earnings Fenway changes may get it to top earner By Scott Van Voorhis Boston Herald Friday, May 28, 2004 Ancient Fenway Park, once slated for demolition, may be poised to become the most lucrative ballpark in baseball as Red Sox executives mull adding thousands of seats, a new study suggests. Fenway has soared to the No. 2 spot in terms of ballpark revenue, just behind Yankee Stadium, amid three years worth of upgrades in and around Major League Baseball' ....
Red Sox Eye Major Plan for Fenway Renovation By Steve Bailey, Globe Staff, 5/26/2004 The Boston Red Sox are leaning strongly toward undertaking major renovations at Fenway Park and hope to develop a master plan for rebuilding the oldest and smallest ballpark in the major leagues by the end of the season. Principal owner John Henry said any renovations of the ballpark would add a maximum of 5,000 seats, bringing capacity to no more than 40,000 fans. ''I love Fenway,'' Henry said in an interview from Fenway Park last night. ''I ....
Henry Wants Answers on Future of Fenway By Scott Van Voorhis Wednesday, May 26, 2004 Boston Herald Top Red Sox owner John Henry said yesterday that he's pushing for a decision on Fenway Park's long-term future, including the possibility of building thousands of seats at the antique ballpark. Sox brass have spent years rolling out smaller-scale ``improvements'' to the 1912 ballfield. But Henry, the Wall Street financier and principal team owner, said yesterday that he believes it is time to start weighing a ....
Sox Ready for More Fenway Improvements By JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer May 25, 4:14 PM EDT BOSTON (AP) -- Red Sox owner John Henry is ready to discuss long-term renovations to Fenway Park, a step that makes it increasingly likely that baseball's oldest and smallest ballpark will be preserved. The team would consider replacing Fenway only if renovation isn't feasible, Henry said Tuesday. While tearing it down "is certainly an option," he said, "on my list, it's at the bottom." "I love Fenway. I can't imagine ....
No Longer Improper to Love Fenway "Why We Love Boston" Jonathan Soroff from The Improper Bostonian, May 12-25, 2004 "To put it in anatomical terms: If Boston were a person, Fenway Park would be a vital organ. Plenty of people would argue, more specifically, it's Boston's heart -- and a pessimist would point out that since 1918 it's given us nothing but heartache. The fact remains, however, that Fenway belongs alongside the Colosseum in Rome and the playing fields of Eton as one of the most storied venues in th ....
Fenway Architect and Enhancements to Fenway Experience An architect steps to plate Modernization bows to history at 'new' Fenway By Beth Greenberg, Globe Correspondent, 5/14/2004 Janet Marie Smith, the staff architect at Fenway Park, learned quickly that Red Sox fans are a sensitive, territorial bunch. Smith, 46, was largely credited with creating the fan-friendly atmosphere at Oriole Park in Baltimore's Camden Yards before being lured to Boston in 2002 by her former Baltimore boss, Red Sox president and CEO Larry Lucchino, to do t ....
Home Improvements Abound Fan-friendly Fenway Home improvements abound Henry Shepherd SPECIAL TO THE TELEGRAM & GAZETTE Worcester Telegram & Gazette April 9, 2004 BOSTON - Fans filing into Fenway for the Red Sox' home opener at 3 p.m. today against the Toronto will notice changes throughout the park, as many areas of the old ballyard were altered during the winter months. With improvements both subtle and striking, visible and invisible, team management has added another batch of modifications t ....
Fenway Park is the Essence of Spring in New England New views and old dreams color Opening Day As the poets and pundits have long recognized, Fenway Park is the essence of spring in New England. 01:00 AM EDT on Saturday, April 10, 2004 BY SCOTT MacKAY Providence Journal Journal Staff Writer BOSTON -- From the cockpit of his F-16 fighter, Lt. Col. T.J. Jackman has a unique aerial view of Fenway Park on Opening Day as he zooms over John Updike's lyric little bandbox at 400 mph in the ceremonial pre-game flyover. Later yestl....
Faithful Love New Roof Seats Faithful love new roof seats 04/09/2004 5:47 PM ET By Mike Petraglia / Special to MLB.com BOSTON -- Another home opener at Fenway Park. Another Patriotic tribute. And another smashing hit for fans getting their first look at the new and improved home of the Red Sox. A sellout crowd started lining the streets around the 92-year-old park Friday morning, some seven hours before the first pitch and the high expectations were met with equally high raves and reviews of both the fap....
"It's a different flavor of ice cream" - Right Field Roof Seats It comes out of right field Prices for new roof seats announced By Gordon Edes, Globe Staff, 3/11/2004 FORT MYERS, Fla. -- It remains to be seen if they will be embraced with the same fervor that greeted the debut of the Monster seats last season, but the Red Sox today are making the official announcement of the sale of approximately 195 seats on the right-field roof, which are intended to create a restaurant-like atmosphere, complete with table service, waiters and waitre ....
Sox' Chairman Says Decision Will Have To Be Made "In The Near Future." Red Sox still lean toward renovation of Fenway By HOWARD ULMAN, AP Sports Writer February 25, 2004 FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) -- The Boston Red Sox still prefer renovating Fenway Park to building a new stadium, team president Larry Lucchino said Wednesday. And minority owner Tom Werner said a decision will have to be made ``in the near future.'' Since buying the team and the stadium before the 2002 season, majority owner John Henry and his partners have made renovations. Se ....
Right Field Roof Seats Among Improvements for 2004 02/18/2004 Fenway makeover continues in '04 Rooftop seats constructed in right field By Ian Browne / MLB.com BOSTON -- As Fenway Park chugs toward its 93rd season, the venerable ballpark -- the oldest among Major League Baseball's 30 teams -- continues to get spruced up. Last year's big hit was the Monster Seats, which quickly became the hottest ticket in the park. This year's creation is 240 seats atop the roof in straight-away right field, a ....
Wisely Cashing in on the Cachet Sox look to boost Fenway's coffers By Scott Van Voorhis Boston Herald Thursday, February 19, 2004 A restaurant and more nonbaseball events could help the cash-hungry Boston Red Sox squeeze more dollars out of Fenway Park to underwrite the perennial battle for supremacy with the New York Yankees. Owners of the Olde Towne Team are contemplating a Sox-themed restaurant in the basement of the ballpark's Yawkey Way office building. And team executives are revving up efforts t ....
Ongoing Improvements at Fenway Add to Team's Coffers Sox $230M, Yanks $340M By Scott Van Voorhis Boston Herald Wednesday, February 18, 2004 The good news is that the Boston Red Sox and the team's new business-savvy owners, in their quest to end a decades-long World Series drought, have pulled in tens of millions of dollars in additional revenue over the past two years. The bad news is - you guessed it - the New York Yankees may have managed to pull even further ahead, taking a mountainous $100 million-revenue lead o ....
New York Times Considers Sox' Chances This Season http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/08/sports/baseball/08SOX.html February 8, 2004 Red Sox Picturing the Parade By TYLER KEPNER BOSTON - When Larry Lucchino turns away from his computer and rises from the swivel chair in his office, he is at eye level with a program from the 2003 American League Championship Series. A fan framed it and sent it to Lucchino, the president of the Boston Red Sox, at Fenway Park. Beneath the cover are the scores of each game between the Red Sox and the ....
Preservation Tax Credit for Renovation? Renovation for Fenway gets a push By Cosmo Macero Jr. Monday, December 22, 2003 Boston Herald Score one for the Save Fenway crowd. A big one. Because while the Red Sox were keeping us busy with Curt Schilling and the A-Rod sweepstakes, allies of the incredibly expanding Fenway Park were getting busy on Beacon Hill. Result: Your state government is now equipped with a cozy little tax break custom-made for helping renovate 91-year-old Fe ....
Plans for New Right Field Roof Seats Shown to Fans Fenway seats are right on By Mike Shalin Boston Herald Sunday, December 14, 2003 Continuing to try to get the most mileage and revenue it can out of aging Fenway Park, Red Sox ownership yesterday unveiled its latest seat-adding plan to the public - the right field roof. Sox CEO Larry Lucchino made it clear plans for 220 seats (table seating) and 150 standing room area spots haven't been finalized. But artist renderings were on hand, as was a photo taken from the roof dur=....
Alternatives to Renovation are Few Options dwindle for new Sox park By Scott Van Voorhis Boston Herald http://business.bostonherald.com/businessNews/business.bg?articleid=963 Wednesday, December 3, 2003 The Red Sox face a diminishing field of alternatives to Fenway Park as several once-promising potential ballpark sites are being pitched for other uses, such as housing or office parks. Four potential ballpark sites are on the market for other uses as Wall Street financier John Henry's Red Sox ownersh ....
Renovation Required for New Comiskey Revenge of the Old Comiskey By Blair Kamin, Chicago Tribune architecture critic November 28, 2003 The planned renovation of the notorious upper deck at U.S. Cellular Field is at once a welcome change that should improve the experience of fans and an astonishing admission of failure, coming just 12 years after the Cell, then known as New Comiskey Park, was introduced as a state-of-the art stadium. It is perhaps unprecedented for a stadium this young to undergo a makeover this dra ....
Is the Bloom Finally Off the Stadium Building Boom? November 17, 2003 The Stadium Game Is This the End of the Building Boom? by Neil deMause http://premium.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=2458 Next spring, the San Diego Padres and Philadelphia Phillies will take up residence in new stadiums, Petco Park and Citizens Bank Park respectively. It promises to be a momentous occasion, not just for Phils and Pads fans who'll be inaugurated into the era of club seats and cupholders, but for baseball itself. Because it's look ....
Seating to be Added to Right Field Roof for 2004 11/07/2003 2:01 PM ET Red Sox to proceed with plans to construct seats on Fenway Park's right field roof BOSTON, MA -- The Boston Red Sox will proceed with plans to add fixed seating for approximately 200 fans atop Fenway Park's right field roof for the 2004 season. The capacity of the ballpark will remain unchanged because the club will simply be converting standing room to fixed seats. The club, which will seek permits beginning next week, received support within the community ....
Fenway and Lambeau renovation: Boston Globe's Derrick Jackson op-ed http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/290/oped/Green_Bay_did_it_right+.shtml DERRICK Z. JACKSON Green Bay did it right By Derrick Z. Jackson, 10/17/2003 GREEN BAY, Wis. THE MOST powerful reason why Fenway Park should be renovated instead of replaced resides in the smallest city in professional sports. Green Bay has the closest thing to a stadium turned museum. ''There is so much history in Fenway,'' said John Jones, CEO of the Green Bay Packers, ''that if I were walking throug ....
What does Fenway's fate hinge upon? Posted on Sat, Oct. 11, 2003 Fenway faces the future Classic ballpark may fall victim to new economics By Stefan Fatsis THE WALL STREET JOURNAL BOSTON - John Updike once wrote that Fenway Park represents "a compromise between Man's Euclidean determinations and Nature's beguiling irregularities." The new owners of the baseball stadium and its occupants, the Boston Red Sox, see a more prosaic conflict: Can they squeeze enough revenue out of the smal ....
Boston Herald editorial "...That beloved Temple of Baseball, Fenway Park, has been saved at least for now from demolition and oblivion...." http://www2.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/edtb09272003.htm Enter the `no-fret' zone A Boston Herald editorial Saturday, September 27, 2003 OK, so you almost want to whisper about it, instead of shout - just in case it's not real, just in case it won't last. And surely we don't want to tempt the Baseball Gods. But this is sooooo sweet, this moment of Red So ....
'Elation in the Nation' - Boston Globe editorial "..... But the continuity that connects this team with its history most strongly comes from Fenway Park itself and, even more, from the dynamic interplay between the team and its fans....." http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/270/editorials/Elation_in_the_nation+.shtml GLOBE EDITORIAL Elation in the nation By 0, 9/27/2003 DAVID ORTIZ made a subtle gesture to the fans as he stepped toward the plate to lead off the bottom of the 10th inning on Tuesday. Fenway had erupted in.....
Fenway's Finances #1 http://www.boston.com/business/globe/articles/2003/09/05/fenway_forever/ DOWNTOWN Fenway forever By Steve Bailey, 9/5/2003 Boston Globe Our Red Sox are red hot again as they go into Yankee Stadium tonight to take on the best team money can buy. Can we compete? Whether we can finally win what has eluded us for so long will depend on Pedro's arm, our reconstituted bullpen and, of course, Manny's mood. What we can no longer blame is the economics of Fenway Park. Trivia quiz: Which tea ....
'Big Concourse' unveiled : SEVERAL ARTICLES 08/18/2003 5:26 PM ET Red Sox unveil 'Big Concourse' Fenway's new section offers concessions, seating area By Mike Petgraglia / Special to MLB.com http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/news/mlb_news.jsp?ymd=20030818&content_id=487859&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb "The Big Concourse" was unveiled at Fenway Park on Monday, which is a substantially expanded area beneath the right-field stands and center-field bleachers. (Chitose Suzuki/AP) BOSTON -- The pennan ....
Rob Neyer On Fenway vs. Yankee Stadium ESPN.com: Baseball http://espn.go.com/mlb/columns/neyer_rob/1586073.html Sunday, July 27, 2003 Updated: August 6, 5:41 PM ET Lansdowne winner: Fenway beats Yankee Stadium By Rob Neyer ESPN.com After watching the Yankees and Red Sox battle at Fenway Park on Friday night and Saturday afternoon, I'd like to tell you what I learned about them. Unfortunately, they split a couple of close games, and anyway it's almost impossible to learn anything in just two games. Ab ....
Lucchino on Renovation Lucchino Lauded for Work to Preserve Fenway Park August 10, 2003 By BLOOMBERG NEWS New York Times, Sunday August 10, 2003 Larry Lucchino, the Boston Red Sox president, weaved his way through a crowd at Yawkey Way 20 minutes before the start of a game recently. As he talked excitedly about the "perpetual street fair" going on around him, fans put down their cold drinks to shake his hand and schmooze. Lucchino is the pied piper of renovation. It has been 18 ....
ESPN ranks MLB venues: Fenway, July 2003 ESPN.com: Page 2 Monday, July 21, 2003 Updated: July 23, 11:44 AM ET Time stands still at Fenway By Jeff Merron Page 2 columnist Editor's Note: This is the ninth report card in Page 2's summerlong series rating all 30 ballparks in Major League Baseball. BOSTON -- "I love Fenway," wrote Red Sox fan Stephen King. "I love it in spite of the things about it that I hate." REPORT CARD Fenway Park Capacity: 33,993 (night); 33,577 (day) Opened: April 20, 1912 Sur ....
Sox Owners' Plans for Ballpark? Sox Owners Take Swing At Fenway Dilemma By MATT EAGAN Hartford (CT) Courant Staff Writer July 23, 2003 Few ballparks have had as much written about them as Fenway Park. That odd, little plot of land in Boston has been the subject of countless essays and compared with Camelot or Oz or Never Never Land. Most of those essays have been written, no doubt, by folks who don't sit behind the right field foul pole. As charming as Fenway Park is, it can be as confini ....
Sox on fan proximity at Fenway, and why they love it With ardent fans behind the hometown team at Fenway, the Red Sox straddle a fine line: The walk of fame 'n' shame by Tony Massarotti Boston Herald Sunday, July 6, 2003 Tonight the people were so fine They waited there in line And when they got up on their feet, they made the show And that was sweet -- Jackson Browne on ``The Load-Out'' One of the most unique moments in sports takes place in one of most unique relationships -- and in one of the ....
Henry visits New Hampshire, discusses plans for team June 25, 2003 "Sox Beat: Boston braintrust visits Manchester" By KEVIN GRAY Staff Sports Writer Manchester Union-Leader PRIZED FREE-AGENT Jose Contreras, who landed with the Yankees, never did take a spin on Red Sox owner John Henry's yacht. Contreras did make a visit to Henry's residence in Florida to "profess his desire" to play for the Red Sox. "Then we found out how he really felt. We never even got a chance to make an offer," said Henry, during a meeting at The U ....
Arizona fan's rave for Fenway "Summer vacation for baseball fans" Jim Thomas The Arizona Republic Jun. 30, 2003 12:00 AM We were sitting in the bowels of Fenway Park, waiting out a rain delay that would stretch to an hour and a half. Wearing jackets and sipping hot chocolate to fight off the cold, damp air. Watching strangers pass by in the dungeon-like surroundings. We were having the time of our lives. Really. Sure, my 18-year-old son and I were concerned the game might be rained out - and ....
Mid-season review of Monster Seats "On the Monster: The newest seats in Fenway Park" 06/29/2003 BY LAURA MEADE KIRK Providnece Journal Staff Writer From the crack of the bat and the cheers of the crowd, it's clear this ball is out of here. Red Sox slugger Manny Ramirez has just uncorked another homer that soars high over the towering green wall in deep left field at Fenway Park in Boston -- and smack into the hands of Steve Beinar. Beinar, who lives in Somerville, Mass., is an avid Red Sox fan who's see/....
Pre-season Thoughts on Monster Seats 01/30/2003 08:32 am ET Red Sox not creating a monster Baseball Perspectives Mike Bauman After careful reflection, the addition of 280 barstool seats atop Fenway Park's Green Monster is not quite the same thing as taking a chisel to Abe Lincoln's face on Mt. Rushmore. You know how we baseball traditionalists feel about anything resembling change. Some of us have not yet come to grips with the notion of night games.... [with photo] ....
Rave Reviews for Green Monster Seats 04/16/2003 12:49 AM ET Monster seating draws raves Fans enjoy unique perspective of Fenway By Ian Browne / MLB.com BOSTON -- The view atop Fenway Park's Green Monster is breathtaking. Tuesday night, the Red Sox opened their new seating area to paying customers for the first time. ... [with photo] ....
Green Monster Seats are Awesome Tuesday, May 13 Updated: May 14, 2:00 PM ET The best seats in the hallowed house By Wayne Drehs ESPN.com BOSTON -- Watch the oversized slugger step into the box and, immediately, you are conflicted. Part of you hopes he launches one, catapulting the ball toward your left-field perch. But part hopes the ball never comes close. That you never have to decide: Do I stick out my bare hand and try to catch the screaming liner? Or cowardly duck and hide? ... ....
The Bloom is Off the Rose: New Stadiums' Attendance Does Not Hold Up Tuesday, May 20, 2003 Updated: May 21, 5:40 PM ET Continued losing main reason for empty parks By Jim Caple ESPN.com The Milwaukee Brewers drew 44,561 fans total for a three-game series with Cincinnati. Their attendance is down almost 4,000 fans from this time last year, which was down 10,000 fans from the previous season. Attendance has declined so much that the team is considering closing sections of the stadium's upper-deck.... ....
Decision on Ballpark at End of Season? Sox taking a pitch on ballpark plans by Scott Van Voorhis Thursday, May 22, 2003 The Boston Red Sox owners won't decide on whether to do a major expansion of Fenway Park until the end of the season, the team's chief executive said yesterday. Larry Lucchino said the down economy is one reason the team is not rushing to make a decision on whether to launch a major upgrade of Fenway Park or, failing that, to build a ballpark at another site.... ....
Associated Press Loves Monster Seats Fenway's new seats monstrously good Thursday, Apr 3, 2003 By JIMMY GOLEN ATOP THE GREEN MONSTER - Kenmore Square - and its landmark Citgo sign - is at my back, the nightclubs of Landsdowne Street are below, the Boston skyline is off in the distance. On the right, I would almost be able to touch the left-field foul pole that welcomed Carlton Fisk's famous homer into history. I am sitting in one of Fenway Park's newest seats. Even though the section is stil ....
Red Sox Second in Earnings Series may wait, but Sox surge in earnings by Scott Van Voorhis Monday, February 3, 2003 During the John Harrington era, the Red Sox frequently blamed Fenway Park for their inability to win a World Series, saying it was too small to generate the revenue needed to compete in a sport increasingly dominated by big money. And while the current Sox ownership group, led by Wall Street financier John Henry, has yet to dispel the Curse of the Bambino, they are ....
Herald Columnist Raves About New Monster Seats! View to a thrill: Monster seats are well worth the wait by Karen Guregian Friday, April 4, 2003 After parking yourself in one of the green swivel barstools high atop the Green Monster, and taking in your first panoramic view of the ballpark from above Fenway's fabled wall, a million thoughts flood into your head. The first? This is way cool. The second? Why in the name of Harry Frazee didn't someone think about doing this sooner? (Actually, Roger Clemen ....
Chicago Tribune Appreciates Fenway WHERE LESS IS MORE Aging gracelessly At 90, Fenway Park is antiquated, but new owners are looking for ways to make improvements By Blair Kamin Tribune architecture critic September 24, 2002, 9:51 PM CDT BOSTON -- It is, like Wrigley Field, the last of a breed, a survivor from the days of small, workaday ballparks when men in straw hats would crowd into narrow seats, intent only on watching the dueling nines before them. There ....
Sox' Consultant Loves Fenway Janet Marie Smith, the Baltimore architect who directed the construction of Camden Yards, is now knee-deep in the tenuous future of Boston's Fenway Park. Smith, vice president of planning and development at Struever Bros. Eccles and Rouse (http://www.sber.com), has worked with the new Red Sox owners since February, trying to renovate the 90-year-old stadium. Previous owners wanted to replace Fenway. That troubled Smith. Fenway was a major inspiration for Camden Yards' ....
Sports Museum Fenway Ideas A dozen hits for the Red Sox The new owners are off to a brisk start; here are suggestions for what should follow By Richard A. Johnson, 7/21/2002 In the moments leading up to their signing the largest purchase and sale agreement in baseball history last winter, one can imagine the newly minted Red Sox partnership of John Henry, Tom Werner, Larry Lucchino, Les Otten, and others being told to wait a minute before rolling their Mont Blanc Diplomats across assorted dotted lines. ......
Fenway's Renaissance From Terrible Fenway to Beautiful Fenway By Rob Neyer, ESPN.com Last night in the northeast, it rained and it rained hard, resulting in the postponement of games in both Boston and New York. As a result, I didn't get to see a game at Fenway Park; just as I arrived in Section 17, they called it. I was there Wednesday night, though, and I'm happy to report that my favorite ballpark is still alive and well. It's funny. I spent the 2000 season here, working on a book. And ....
Janet Marie-Smith TV Interview Source: Channel 5 Broadcast of Natalie Jacobsen's (NJ) interview with Red Sox Architectural Planner Janet-Marie Smith (JMS), 2/27/2002. NJ: "If you were to have visited FP this week, you would have seen them adding seats in foul territory, and that is just the start. For years, we have heard 'Fenway Park is too small, can't be renovated and the Red Sox need to move.' The new owners, however, feel very strongly that renovating Fenway is key. They want to make it work like other ....
Lucchino study: renovation Source: “Lucchino did review of Sox rebuild plan: Owners to do longer study,” Scott Van Voorhis, Boston Herald, 1/24/02. Even as the new Red Sox ownership group pledges to study the feasibility of rebuilding Fenway Park, incoming chief executive Larry Lucchino has already quietly conducted his own review of the splashy but controversial plan, sources say. Lucchino late last November brought in Camden Yards architect Janet Marie Smith to take a look the Fenway rebuild plan, which was ....
Herald's Gelzinis says "Save Fenway!" Source: “Where they'll play is just as important as who will pay,” Peter Gelzinis, columnist, Boston Herald, 1/13/02. I have no idea who will end up owning the Boston Red Sox and, frankly, I don't care. The machinations of all these country club characters are so far removed from my daily routine as to be all but meaningless. Maybe the new owners will have pockets deep enough to buy the next Pedro, or the next Nomar. And maybe they won't. Either way, I don't plan on spending $6 ....
Henry "Upbeat" on Renovation Source: “New Sox owners order own study of Fenway Park,” Scott Van Voorhis, Boston Herald, 1/31/02. Incoming Red Sox owner John Henry is feeling "upbeat" about the potential for rebuilding creaky Fenway Park after spending part of the day examining the old ballpark with a top architectural expert. Henry and other members of his Sox ownership group were taken on an in-depth inspection tour on Tuesday of the early 1900s ballpark by Janet Marie Smith, a noted architect who helped s ....
MLB: Fenway 2nd overall in profitability Source: "The Numbers (Part One): Gate Receipts," by Doug Pappas, BaseballProspectus.com, 12/11/01. (Ed. Note: Doug Pappas is the chairman of SABR's Business of Baseball Committee and a highly-regarded analyst of the game's economic issues. This is the first of a series of pieces he will be doing analyzing the game's finances.--JSS) Shortly before Commissioner Bud Selig's testimony before Congress on December 6, Major League Baseball released the most detailed summary of team fi ....
Nomar supports Fenway renovation Source; “Nomar: Sox need owner who cares,” By Peter Gammons, Special to ESPN.com, 12/9/01. Nomar Garciaparra, home in California, has traveled some. He has laid off weights affecting the right wrist injury that cost him all but 21 games of the 2001 season, until he goes to Arizona in January to begin his intense six-week session with trainer Mark Verstagen. All the while, the future of the Red Sox has been on his mind, which prompted him to call and offer his thoughts to who ....
Gammons on Sox Bidders Source: "Deal-making to impact Red Sox," By Peter Gammons, Special to ESPN.com, Nov. 25, 2001. Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy has always theorized that when it comes to baseball, no matter what road Robert Frost or Bud Selig takes, it all comes back to the Red Sox. So as Selig prepares to meet his fellow owners Tuesday and expand on contraction, and two days later John Harrington and his lawyers from Bingham, Dana and Gould hold the envelopes up to the lights to see who.....
Ripken toasts Fenway Source: "End of the road: Ripken makes final trips to Fenway, Yankee Stadium," SportsIllustrated.com, Posted: 9/24/01 7:18 PM, Updated: 11:46 PM. BOSTON (AP) -- Cal Ripken stared at the framed black-and-white photo showing Ted Williams practicing his batting stance in Boston's clubhouse. Later this week Ripken can check out the monuments to Yankee greats in the House That Ruth Built. The end of Ripken's long road passes through two of baseball's most historic fields, ....
Fenway Renovation Proposal at ESPN.com Source: “Prospective owners offer ideas,” By Peter Gammons, Special to ESPN.com, Posted on Sept. 25, 2001. Watching a game at Pac Bell Park this spring, a Bostonian expressed his admiration for the stadium, both for its consumer genius and the fact that it is San Francisco. "Looking back 3,000 miles," the Boston native replied, "what is more Boston than Fenway Park? Is there any more recognizable landmark?" The Bostonian offered the USS Constitution and the Bunker Hill M ....
Save Fenway TV editorial INTRODUCTION: On July 14, 2001, Paul La Camera, President and General Manager of WCVB TV in Boston, released a TV editorial supporting a new "Waterfront" stadium. Save Fenway Park requested and was granted the chance to rebut La Camera's claims. The following is the text of SFP's response, which aired the week of August 5-10, 2001. "WCVB’s support for a new Red Sox stadium in>....
Fenway is Terrific TV Source: “SPORT VIEW: This Fenway team always comes through in crunch time,” By Bill Griffith, 8/14/2001. Some things to consider when watching tonight's Mariners-Red Sox game from Fenway Park (NESN, 7 p.m.). Fact: Fenway Park is a terrific venue for a televised baseball game. It's historic, having long ago achieved shrine status among baseball fans. It's picturesque. It's filled with enthusiastic, sign-toting fans. In short, it's a director's dream. Fact: Fenway Par ....
Best Ballparks List Source: "A User's Eye View of Best Baseball Parks: Seven new designs, three classics," The American Institute of Architects website, July 2001. The Three Classics "Boston's Fenway Park" "Designed by Osborn Engineering and built in 1912, Fenway is the granddaddy of ballparks. Its views may be blocked and its seats are narrow-but this is real, old-fashioned baseball, even if it is the Red Sox. Some 34,000 fans at any given time can watch right-handed sluggers pull ....
Experts: New Stadiums Can Hurt Teams Source: “New homes get old quickly: Fans' love of new stadiums can be short lived, turning winning teams to losers,” Chris Isidore, staff writer, CNNfn.com, July 27, 2001. NEW YORK (CNNfn) - In terms of money invested in over-valued, money-losing ventures, only dot.com companies in their heyday could compete with new stadiums and sports arenas. But unlike the dot.coms, there's still a long line of people eager to sink more money into new stadiums. New York is on the ve ....
Comerica Park Comes Up Short Source: ”Chill in Detroit: Comerica Park's empty seats should give pause to all in the game who believe a new park is an automatic ticket to a brighter future,” By Jon Morgan (staff), Baltimore Sun, June 30, 2001. DETROIT - It doesn't get much better than this for a ballgame: The sky is blue, the temperature a delightful 74 and the Tigers are in the midst of a two-run, fourth-inning rally at their new stadium. Seated in a half-empty upper deck at Comerica Park, Jeff Nail, >....
Fenway, Foxboro, Pittsfield in 'Schemes Source: excerpted from FoS Field of SchemesNews, by Neil deMause, 6/24/01. The Boston Red Sox would be financially better off remaining in Fenway Park than moving to a new stadium, according to a new study by sports economist Robert Baade commissioned by Save Fenway Park! and Ralph Nader. Thanks to Fenway's popularity, The Sox have remained among the highest-renevue teams in the league even as new ballparks have opened in recent ye ....
SFP Op-ed in the Globe Source: "The only solution: Rebuild Fenway," By Dan Wilson and Paul Shannon, directors of Save Fenway Park, Boston Globe op-ed, Monday, 6/18/2001. ASIDE FROM NOMAR'S wrist, the big question for Red Sox fans is: Where should the team build its new ballpark? Some say the Sox should consider building at a site other than the new Fenway site on Boylston Street currently designated for the stadium. Mayor Menino, the Boston Redevelopment Authority, and team owner John Harrington d ....
Interview with Philip Bess Source: Excerpted from “My Dinner With Bess,” John Brattain, TOTK.com Sports, 6/8/01. (Link to full article below). ....I've been in contact with an a professor of architecture in Chicago who knows all about stadium architecture /design. He has an idea that nobody has wanted to try. His idea first sprang up when the White Sox were looking to replace old Comiskey Park... John: A majority of major league baseball teams claim that a new publicly-financed stadium0....
SFP! Featured in Hartford Courant Source: "Park Preservationists," by Paul Doyle, The Hartford Courant, 4/18/01. BOSTON - The debate started as they were hanging the banners. Eric Atkinson, a Merrimack College senior, studied the handouts. John Valianti, representing the citizens group Save Fenway Park, made his pitch. "People have made us out to be crazy," Valianti said. "We're not crazy." For about 10 minutes the morning of April 6, Valianti and Atkinson argued the merits of renovating ....
Fenway popular among "ballpark tourists" "Despite the popularity of the newfangled parks, some purists remain dedicated to the rapidly diminishing historic parks. Merzbach, who recalls visiting parks with his family, is one. "There are some new parks that are quite nice, but I think the older parks have more unique aspects to them," he said. "I think a lot of the new parks are just being built in a cookie-cutter fashion." Tops on many must-see lists are two of the Major League Baseball's oldest parks, Wrigley Field i.....
Fenway in ESPN Top 5 ESPN's Jayson Stark's top five ballparks 1. Camden Yards So beautiful, I'd be happy to sit there all afternoon and watch them mow the grass. 2. Fenway Park That moment, when you first lay eyes on that field -- The Monster, the triangle, the scoreboard, the light tower Big Mac bashed, the left-field grass where Ted once roamed -- it all defines to me why baseball is such a magical game. 3. Wrigley Field Is there any place on earth where people are having more fun than ....
The Voice of Fenway Source: "Sox should remember Sherm," Beverly Beckham, Boston Herald, 3/30/01. It"s a personal thing with Gary Titus. He"ll tell you this. Sherm Feller was his friend. How good a friend? Titus and his wife, Sarah, named their son Louis "Sherman" Titus "to keep Sherm in our memory always." Last spring when Titus logged on to the Boston Red Sox Web site and was greeted by his friend"s familiar voice, "Ladies and gentlemen - boys and girls," he was thrilled. The voice bel ....
No Need For New Fenway SOURCE: Tom Condon, The Hartford Courant9/17/2000. ..."The Red Sox can get nine-tenths of what they want by renovating the existing Fenway Park," said Hartford architect Patrick Pinnell. Pinnell, a "new urbanism" advocate, former Yale architecture professor and member of the group that prepared downtown Hartford's Greenberg Plan, is in a position to know. He was a member of a national team of designers headed by Chicago stadium architect Philip Bess who gathered for a ....
Fenway Park in Elysian Fields The current issue of Elysian Fields Quarterly, "a literate and intelligent, quirky, iconoclastic, funny, and opinionated journal for people who enjoy great writing and truly love baseball," includes an article on the fight to save Fenway Park by SFP's Randy Divinski, a write up on the symposium by Jeffrey Harris, and symposium remarks from Philip Bess. EFQ Publisher Tom Goldstein says: "I like to think that it's .....
Fenway Doesn't Need To Be Replaced Source: Rob Neyer, ESPN.COM columnist,[spring 2000]: ... [D]o the Red Sox, as so many claim, "need" a new ballpark? Of course they don't. In my mind, to suggest such a thing is fairly preposterous. This season, thanks to the highest ticket prices in all the land and a rabid fan base, the Red Sox boast the seventh-highest payroll in baseball, and the third-highest in the American League. The Red Sox ranked sixth in American League attendance last year, and will likely .....