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Quotations about Fenway Park
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“I knew when they flashed that Bruins score there was going to be a little electricity in the park,” said closer Jonathan Papelbon, who picked up his sixth save. “I knew there was going to be a little bit of Boston fever, whatever you want to call it, Boston flu. It’s a city of champions right now. I knew once they flashed that score, something magic was going to happen.”
-- Jonathan Papelbon, Sox pitcher
, Boston Herald, 'Sox follow B’s lead
Rally to beat Rangers with late heroics,'
By Jeff Horrigan, Sunday, April 20, 2008. http://www.bostonherald.com/sports/baseball/red_sox/view.bg?articleid=1088373&srvc=rss
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“When I was with Detroit, [pitcher] Todd Jones said it best,” Casey recalls. “He said it seems like Game Seven of the World Series every night [at Fenway]. Just the energy that these fans bring is second to none. … I’m really excited to experience it from the home side.”
-- Sean Casey
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'Casey: It's a dream to play for Sox,Providence Journal, February 6, 2008, By JOE McDONALD, Journal Sports Writer.
http://www.projo.com/redsox/content/sp_bb_casey06_02-06-08_548TDI5_v8.3634c92.html
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"I love playing here," he said. "It's historic. I don't know anyone who wouldn't like to play here. A lot of people come through here.
"You've got to respect the fact that this place has been around a long time and there's a lot of history in this ballpark. It's beautiful. This is probably my favorite place on the road to come to."
-- Aaron Hill, Toronto Blue Jays
, Jays gain lift from this win: Solid pitching, Hill's bat are key,' By Nancy Marrapese-Burrell, Boston Globe Staff, April 24, 2007.
http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2007/04/24/jays_gain_lift_from_this_win/
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'..."I always wanted to be on the mound at Fenway Park so, naturally, when I stand there, special emotions may come to me," Matsuzaka told Japanese reporters.
"I think that [Fenway] is a sacred place for any pitcher because great pitchers such as Cy Young, Pedro Martínez, and Roger Clemens, to name a few, pitched there. The game at Fenway means a lot more to me [than the game in Kansas City]."
And, on staring down the Mariners' Ichiro Suzuki, Matsuzaka said: "I'm very excited about it and I can't wait to face him."...'
-- Daisuke Matsuzaka
, RED SOX NOTEBOOK, By Amalie Benjamin, Boston Globe, Monday, April 9, 2007.
http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2007/04/09/lopez_hopes_for_staying_power/
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Fenway. You don't need a cornfield to find the real Field of Dreams.
From Shoeless Joe to Smoky Joe, they all played on this sacred soil.
-- Dick Wood, grandson of Smoky Joe Wood
, E-mail to SFP!, September 9. 2006
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"No sushi. No quesadillas. No lattes. It's hot dogs, beer, Saux. That's what it's all about. I'm really glad I had the chance to experience something like that."
-- Todd Jones, Tiger pitcher , and former Sox pitcher
, 'Jones holds fond memories of Fenway Park,' August 13, 2006, by Jon Paul Morosi, Detroit Free Press
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060813/SPORTS02/608130637/1050
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'"...You can tell this team feeds off the home crowd," said Mark Loretta (home run, two hits, one defensive gem), who toiled in mundane major league outposts in Milwaukee, Houston, and San Diego before coming to Hardball's Happiest Place On Earth.
``There isn't an atmosphere like this anywhere else in baseball. It gives us a distinct home-field advantage."
The Red Sox are 27-10 at Fenway, where they have sold out 263 consecutive games....'
-- Sox' 2nd Baseman, Mark Loretta
, 'Let the good times roll,'
by Dan Shaughnessy, Boston Globe Columnist / June 30, 2006 http://www.boston.com/sports/articles/2006/06/30/let_the_good_times_roll/
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"I think it's spectacular," Selig said. "They walked me around today and we looked at everything. I think my first trip here was with my mother in 1949, I came back a lot with Milwaukee because I loved coming here. The changes are spectacular but the greatness of this, and in a sense, it's just like Wrigley Field, these are institutions. They really are institutions. It still looks like Fenway Park, there's something about it, I got chills walking around today. It's that good. They have done a masterful job."
http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20060504&content_id=1437807&vb....
-- Bud 'In the Best Interests of Baseball' Selig, Commissioner
, 'Selig holds court at Fenway;
Commissioner discusses wide range of baseball issues,' By Ian Browne, MLB.com, 05/04/2006
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“...It was euphoric,” said Loretta, acquired from the San Diego Padres Dec. 7 for Doug Mirabelli. “What’s struck me about Fenway was there wasn’t any drop-off (in excitement) from Opening Day to the next day to the next day to the next. I’ve played in a lot of places, (Milwaukee’s) County Stadium, for example, where we’d have 55,000 people Opening Day and have about 8,000 the next day. If anything, the intensity here just continues to build. It’s almost like a playoff atmosphere. That’s what people told me it was going to be like but until you experience it, you have no idea...”
-- Sox' 2nd baseman Mark Loretta after hitting walk-off homerun to win Patriots' Day game, April 17
, from 'Euphoria engulfs Fenway,' by Jeff Horrigan, Boston Herald, April 18, 2006.
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"When I was drafted in '76, my father said I got drafted by the perfect team because Fenway was built for my hitting style," Boggs said. "In my opinion, it's the greatest place to hit on the planet."
-- Wade Boggs
, 'Hall pass: Boggs, Sandberg are ushered into Cooperstown,' By Chris Snow, Boston Globe Staff, January 5, 2005
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'Sox CEO Larry Lucchino called yesterday to say everything was going to be just fine in the Nation as the team determinedly marches across a new frontier.
"We are in transition from star-crossed to a different but equally embraceable future," Lucchino said. "Never underestimate the appeal of a winning baseball team in a beautiful park."'
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2004/10/29/nagging_doubts/
-- Larry Lucchino, Boston Red Sox President and CEO
, -- From 'Nagging doubts,'
By Brian McGrory, Boston Globe Columnist, October 29, 2004
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...``If someone asked me this three or four years ago, I'd say we needed a new ballpark,'' Pesky said yesterday, ``but I think this park has been beautified. Right now, even as old as this park is, I'm surprised it's turned out as well as it has. I admire what they're doing, or trying to do. I don't know how much Wrigley Field has improved, but this place here, they've made great advances for the fans.''
Injured shortstop Nomar Garciaparra didn't vote either way to save Fenway, or build a new park. He loved the idea of building a new park behind the old one, keeping Fenway a ....
-- Johnny Pesky and Nomar Garciaparra
, 'Fenway Plan an Old Story,' Karen Guregian, Boston Herald, May 27, 2004
http://redsox.bostonherald.com/redSox/view.bg?articleid=29530&format=text
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"Being on the mound at Fenway Park in the ninth inning with two outs. I wanted to finish this one."
The Fenway Faithful cheering every pitch helped the experience surpass his expectations.
"It's been a lot more than I thought it would be," he said. "That's why I look so forward to pitching in this park every time. It's just a charge.
"I thought I knew what it would be like, but it's so much more than I thought it would be. These fans are great. I love that part of the game when they are into it like that. There is a consistent intensity here. The fans are always in the game and alwa
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-- Curt Schilling, Sox pitcher
, Boston Globe, "Completely satisfying:
Schilling pleased to go the full nine,"
By Paul Harber, Globe Staff, 5/9/2004
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... "When we were in Texas, Jerry Narron and I used to sit in the dugout when we'd come to Boston," Francona said. "We'd say, `Can you imagine coming to Fenway every day?' This [Boston] is the only place I'd have the cab driver let me off so I could come in through the outfield and walk across the field." ...
-- Terry Francona, Red Sox Manager
, Boston Globe, March 7, 2004. "With A-Rod in today, the hype goes hyper," Bob Ryan.
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"It's an old park, very small and the fans, they are just tremendous, the packed houses, the cheering, it's a great place to play...I appreciate the fan support at Fenway Park. As a pitcher, if you can get support from the fans, it's a plus. Once the game starts, though, I focus on the hitters, I am concentrating. But I love to play there."
-- Byung-Hyun Kim, Boston Red Sox
, "Kim winding up: newest Sox pitcher ready for Fenway debut," by Michael Silverman, Boston Herald, 6/10/03. www2.bostonherald.com/sport/red_sox/sox06102003.htm
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"It's unbelievable. I mean, we got eight or nine thousand [fans] in Miami....Then you come up here on Yawkey Way....It's all about the Sox. That's the situation, that's the atmosphere when you show up here. It's not just a game; it's an atmosphere, and the Sox are what rules this Nation. I think that's what it's about. For a player it makes it so much more special to take the field."
-- Kevin Millar, Boston Red Sox
, "He's talking monkey, business: One-on-one with Kevin Millar,' by Michael Smith,Boston Globe,
6/11/03.
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There is only one Fenway. Fenway's dimensions and architecture were based on necessity, and the result was an unplanned, bizarre and glorious ballpark. I don't want a "new" and "entertaining" Fenway with "conveniences." I want to watch a baseball game at the greatest ballpark in the world.
-- Greg Geddes, Binghamton, NY
, Letter to Save Fenway Park!
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"There is no question but that the positive shelf life of a new stadium has shrunk considerably. The new parks in themselves can't be a long-term or mid-term panacea for the problems."
-- Bud Selig, Commissioner of Baseball
, BaseballProspectus.com, June, 2002
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What's Boston's most cherished landmark? Site of Boston's greatest
dramas and worst defeats? To many Bostonians, it's not Bunker Hill or
the Freedom Trail, not Harvard or MIT, but tiny Fenway Park, home of
baseball's Red Sox, where names like Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, Carl
Yastrzemski and Jim Rice are uttered and remembered as reverently as any
hero from Boston's colonial history. Pitcher Pedro Martinez and
shortstop Nomar Garciaparra are the new stars in this constellation,
adding to their legacies game by game.
Nestled between the Fens and the Mass Pike, Fenway Park is truly
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-- Kim Grant
, "Boston" (Lonely Planet guide), August 2000, p.89.
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''Me being here [traded back in Boston] is what I think is right. What I think could be done. And it has nothing to do with Dan Duquette or John Harrington. It has to do with playing in Fenway Park, with those fans, in that clubhouse.''
-- Mo Vaughn
, Bob Hohler, "Vaughn Pushes to Come Back,"
Boston Globe, 10/17/2001.
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"The thing that I remember the most is just the feeling you get when you walk out on that field [at Fenway].... All of the ballparks, especially the new ones, and Camden Yards, I guess, started the trend, try to capture in the modern sense the feeling of Fenway Park. It's just a great feeling to be able to play baseball on that field. It's a special place."
-- Cal Ripken, Jr.
, Sports Illustrated.com, 9/24/2001.
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"I come into ballparks now with my eyes open a little wider. I try to take in all the things that maybe you take for granted that are pretty special moments. They could be dumb things like sitting on the bench by yourself and looking out over Fenway. There's a certain peace and feeling you have looking out on the field...This is a great place. It has a ghostlike feeling, in a way, when you come play here. I remember the celebration at the All-Star Game, the All-Century team. It was really, really cool when you had all the players from different eras and the thing that they had in common was F ....
-- Cal Ripken, Jr.
, Boston Globe, 9/25/01.
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"Everything with me is normal except when I pitch [at Fenway Park]. When I pitch here it's a little different. There is a little more anxiety to go along with the nostalgia because this is the park I grew up with as a kid.
"This is the park I dreamed of playing Major League Baseball in and no other ballpark has that feeling for me. There are a lot more family and friends here than in my normal starts and I want to pitch well here."
-- Tom Glavine, pitcher
, Boston Herald,
July 9, 2001.
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"Love of Fenway itself may be as much a part of the Sox' 2.6 million annual attendance as Pedro, Manny and Nomar."
-- Michael Gee, columnist
, "On the waterfront? Nah: Move to Southie would leave Sox fans out in cold,"
Boston Herald,
Tuesday, July 10, 2001.
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"I've always noticed how the Fenway fans get behind the pitcher, especially late in the game if you're having a good game, or if you have two strikes on a hitter, they really start to chant and anticipate a strikeout.... And that's the best part about playing in Boston and at Fenway. There are knowledgeable fans who anticipate the flow of the game and they can really help out the pitcher."
-- David Cone, former Red Sox pitcher
, Boston Herald, 5/28/01, on the eve of his Fenway Park debut as a member of the Red Sox.
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"Fenway is the essense of baseball."
-- Tom Seaver
, Lane Hartill, Farewell to Fenway?, Christian Science Monitor, July 1999.
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"One of the joys of New England life is returning to the Chapel that is the home of the Boston Red Sox: Fenway Park. Unlike other Shrines, though, this House of Worship generates electricity. It is a place where visitors can see the invisible murals that have been painted and left behind by the men who have played there in years gone by."
-- Red Sox franchise
, www.redsox.com, official Red Sox website.
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"Fenway Park is a little lyrical bandbox of a ballpark. Everything is painted green and seems in curiously sharp focus like the inside of an old fashioned Easter Egg. It was built in 1912 and rebuilt in 1934 and offers, as do most Boston artifacts, a compromise between man's Euclidean determinations and nature's beguiling irregularities."
-- John Updike
, "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu," New Yorker, 1960
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"Wrigley Field and Fenway Park are two of the favorite parks in my life... It's the closeness of the fans and the players... There's so many new ballparks, but that's still my two favorites."
-- Don Zimmer, player, coach and manager
, "The Connection," National Public Radio (WBUR-Boston), 5/2/01.
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"You can sit around and compare ballparks all you want, but no park in baseball compares to Fenway. If you want to see 'a baseball game' -- that's a generic term -- and have a chance to see everything that baseball can provide then Fenway is the place to see it."
-- Carlton Fisk, Hall of Fame Sox catcher
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"I've moved from the newest ballpark in the country [Miller Park] to the oldest.... It's the dream of my life. It's the best place in the world to be. Fenway Park."
-- David Mellor, the Red Sox's new director of grounds
, Fenway's field marshall, by Carol Stocker, Boston Globe, 4/7/2001.
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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.
-- Jayson Stark
, ESPN, 3/30/01
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Pride in our Past, Faith in our Future
Working to save Fenway Park ranks among the most noble of undertakings available to anyone
who believes in a real and potent American history. Of civic buildings in our country, none is
rarer: only two early 20th century ballparks remain. Fenway is one, and, in all its crazy imperfections, in spite of its neglect, even in the face of its seeming antique obsolescence, it is absolutely perfect....
Boston and the Red Sox, have pride in your past, have faith in your future, and hold fast to your spirit. Save Fenway Park, fix it, change>....
-- Howard Decker, architect and preservationist
, Remarks delivered at the Future Fenway Design Symposium final session, Sept. 8, 2000
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"This is the place to be. Baseball town. The intimacy of Fenway, the toughness of it. I like that. I'm used to it. I need it. If I went somewhere else, it might have been a bit of a letdown. I like the edge."
-- David Cone, former Red Sox pitcher
, Boston Globe, 2/13/01, F6.
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“I believe that these temples are our secular cathedrals, and they tell us as much about what we care about as anything in our environment.”
-- Ken Burns, film maker
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"But when we lose Fenway, we lose that sense that somebody sat here and watched Ted Williams hit.”
-- Bob Costas
, Fox TV, 1999
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“Let me get this straight. We’re bulldozing real vintage ballparks like Tiger Stadium and Fenway Park to put up fake vintage ballparks?”
-- Rick Reilly, sportswriter
, Sports Illustrated, 1999
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“Will the city preserve enough of its distinctiveness to remain a unique, valuable attraction, or will it allow an indifferent marketplace of conformity and greed to kill the golden goose?”
-- Editorial Board, Boston Globe
, Boston Globe, 9/13/99
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“Fenway Park is one of the most historic, beloved, and revered ballparks in the nation. In fact, [tourism statistics] indicate that Fenway Park attracts more visitors to Boston than any other single attraction.”
-- C.H. Johnson Consulting
, "The Johnson Report," 1999, a study commissioned by the Red Sox.
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“I’m helplessly and permanently a Red Sox fan. It was like first love...You never forget. It’s special. It’s the first time I saw a ballpark. I’d thought nothing would ever replace cricket.... Wow - Fenway Park at 7 o’clock in the evening. Oh, just, magic beyond magic: never got over that.
-- Simon Schama, Art Historian
, “History in Brilliant Brushstrokes,” Boston Globe, 11/30/99.
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“As Commissioner, you’re supposed to be objective. It wasn’t much of a secret, though, that I loved Fenway -- especially how it made you a participant, not a spectator.”
-- Bowie Kuhn, Commissioner of Baseball, 1969-84
, quoted in Curt Smith, Our House: A Tribute to Fenway Park (Master Press), 1999, p. 16.
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“As I grew up, I knew that as a building [Fenway Park] was on the level of Mount Olympus, the Pyramid at Giza, the nation’s capitol, the czar’s Winter Palace, and the Louvre -- except, of course, that is was better than all those inconsequential places.”
-- Bart Giamatti, former Baseball Commissioner
, quoted in Curt Smith, Our House: A Tribute to Fenway Park (Master Press), 1999, p. xv.
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“Hope that Gibraltar tumbles and, yes, the Rockies crumble before New England loses Fenway Park.”
-- Curt Smith, author
, Our House: A Tribute to Fenway Park (Masters Press), 1999, p. xiii.
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“On weekends, just about all of my business is fathers buying souvenirs for their kids and telling them stories about how it was when they’d come to Fenway with their own fathers. Three generations coming to Fenway telling baseball stories.”
-- Marc Talbot, souvenir salesman
, circa 1986, quoted in Curt Smith, Our House: A Tribute to Fenway Park (Master Press), 1999, p. 158.
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“Get behind by four runs, no problem. Ahead by four in the eighth, delay the champagne. Nothing was, or is, certain, not even a pitcher sailing along. One little hit, an error maybe, can open a door to a pop-fly homer in the net. A walk and then a triple to right, maybe something down the line, can change the whole thing for or against the home team. “That’s the magic of Fenway Park. That’s why people love it so. Come to think of it, at Fenway almost every year is a wonder year.”
-- Ned Martin, Sox radio/TV announcer, 1974-92
, quoted in Curt Smith, Our House: A Tribute to Fenway Park (Master Press), 1999, p. 170.
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“Boston must balance development growth with the preservation of what makes our city so livable -- our historic character, scale, and charm. We are distinct from other American cities because we view our buildings as resources, not liabilities.”
-- Thomas Menino, Mayor of Boston
, Boston Globe
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“Places of the heart, even impure ones, are worth the effort. Your home, your neighborhood, your city - you have to defend your piece of ground. Manufactured, mediated experience is ubiquitous. Battling to preserve a special place is not quaint provincialism. It is defiance against the relentless obliteration of memory and community.”
-- Michael Betzold, Tiger Stadium Fan Club
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“I am in the US Army Medical Corps serving in the NATO peacekeeping mission in Kosovo...and a fourth generation Red Sox fan. I am very interested in doing whatever I can to preserve Fenway for my children.”
-- SGT Jeffrey Blood
, Letter to Save Fenway Park!, 1999
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“Through my annual pilgrimages from the furthest edge of Red Sox nation, I have come to cherish Fenway Park in all its quirky glory. Truly, there is no other place like it in the world. It disturbs me deeply that a fuzzy faced apprentice architect from the Midwest will try to recreate this magical place like some Disney interpretation of a ballpark.”
-- James Hardy, New Orleans
, letter to Save Fenway Park!
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"The ballpark is the star. In the age of Tris Speaker and Babe Ruth, the era of Jimmie Foxx and Ted Williams, through the empty-seats epoch of Don Buddin and Willie Tasby and unto the decades of Carl Yastremski and Jim Rice, the ballpark is the star. A crazy-quilt violation of city planning principles, an irregular pile of architecture, a menace to marketing consultants, Fenway Park works. It works as a symbol of New England's pride, as a repository of evergreen hopes, as a tabernacle of lost innocence. It works as a place to watch baseball." "It is a ballpark, not a stadium."
-- Martin F. Nolan
, "A Ballpark, Not a Stadium," in Curt Smith, Our House, Masters Press, 1999, p. 27.
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"New England's parlor, a region's nightclub, and the Olde Towne Team's hearth. To generations of Americans, going to Fenway Park has been like coming home."
-- Curt Smith
, Our House: A Tribute to Fenway Park," Masters Press, 1999.
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“You can say, ‘Well, if they tore down Fenway Park, we can build a new one.’ But you wouldn’t build it right. It’s better to make the accommodations, to save the old ballparks. If Fenway Park needs skyboxes to bring in the poverty-stricken owners enough money to save the stadium
before they tear it down and move it someplace else, then build the damn skyboxes. If Wrigley Field needs lights to survive, put up the damn
lights.... Make the damn structural improvements but save the ballpark because when you try to rebuild a cathedral five hundred years too late, it doesn’t come out the sa’....
-- Tom Boswell, Washington Post sportswriter
, "The Story of America’s Classic Ballparks" (videotape), Questar Video, Inc., 1991.
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“It’ll be one more McDonald’s, more Golden Arch, one more Howard Johnson’s, one more Marriott...what goes is another piece of individuality.”
[circa 1990, referring to the impending replacement of Chicago's historic Comiskey Park "New Comiskey Park"]
-- Studs Terkel
, "The Story of America’s Classic Ballparks" (videotape), Questar Video, Inc., 1991.
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“...Finally, there was -- and still is -- Fenway itself: more than just a venue, ‘a lyric little bandbox of a ballpark’ (in John Updike’s wonderful phrase), and the visible, venerable token of it all. To pass through its aging portals is to feel the power of this tradition, these soaring dreams and shattering disappointments. Squint a bit, and you can see Ted’s gloriously arching homer off Rip Sewell’s outlandish blooper pitch; you can see Yaz slowly circling the field, touching all those outstretched hands, on his final day in the lineup after twenty-three stalwart years. The old park jus
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-- John Demos
, “A Fan’s Homage to Fenway (Or, Why We Love It When They Always Break Our Hearts), in American Places: Encounters with History, edited by William E. Leuchtenburg (Oxford Univ. Press, 2000).
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"To me, the feeling is what you get from standing on this field. It's the memories, the history -- you get a great sense of the players who played here over the years. What made Camden Yards a gem was re-creating the atmosphere that a place like Fenway already has."
-- Cal Ripken, Jr.
, Boston Globe, 9/25/00
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If you're wondering what's wrong with Fenway Park in the first place, you're not the only one. Fenway is special precisely because it has what modern stadiums lack: seats that, while often cramped, offer the best views in baseball; and the sense that, if you squint, that could be Smoky Joe Wood pitching to Ty Cobb out there instead of Jeff Fassero and Bobby Higginson.
-- Neil deMause
, www.SportsJones.com 9/2000
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Welcome to instant prepackaged, brand-new oldness... Camden Yards was baseball's first attempt to bring its past back from the dead. Evocative, nostalgic, and unleashing of a frenzy of building the newest old stadiums man could build, which now, in a total perversion of the idea of actual architectural history, threatens Fenway.''
-- Keith Olbermann
, on 'Fox Sports New England,' in a segment which aired Sunday, August 27, 2000.
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“When the Red Sox win, the P.A. system immediately blares forth "Dirty Water," a No. 11 hit for The Standells back in 1966. It's usually little more than pleasant background music as we make our slow, slow way toward the exits. But after a dramatic win -- and tonight marked the Red Sox' third walk-off win in their last eight games -- a good percentage of the fans hang around and sing:”
“I love that dirty water ...”
“Oh, Boston you're my home.”
“I don't sing along because Boston's not my home, not really. But if you're a baseball fan, you haven't lived until you've heard 30,000-some New
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-- Rob Neyer, sportswriter
, ESPN.com, August 7, 2000
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