USA - Massachusetts - Boston - Fenway Park (2)

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Fenway Park.

Sent by Jim, a postcrosser from Massachusetts, USA.

USA - Massachusetts - Boston - Fenway Park (1)

Boston's American League baseball park, built in 1912, has a capacity of 34,812. It is known for its close-to-home-plate left field wall. The stadium is located near Kenmore Square convenient to downtown.

The second of the two postcard sent by Gregory of Dorchester in Massachusetts.

This is from Wikipedia : Fenway Park is a baseball park near Kenmore Square in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. It is also home to Boston Red Sox. Located at 4 Yawkey Way, it has served as the home ballpark of the Boston Red Sox baseball club since it opened in 1912, and is the oldest Major League Baseball stadium currently in use. It is the only one of the original standards ballparks that is still in use. It is also the oldest venue used by a professional sports team in the United States.

Because of the ballpark's age and constrained location in an urban neighborhood next to Boston University's large campus, the park has had many renovations and additions over the years not initially envisioned, resulting in unique, quirky features, including "the Triangle", "Pesky's Pole", and most notably the famous Green Monster in left field. Fenway Park is renowned for hosting dedicated Red Sox fans, collectively called "Red Sox Nation". Every Red Sox home game since May 15, 2003, has sold out; in 2008, the park sold out its 456th consecutive Red Sox game, breaking a Major League record.

Fenway Park has also been the site of many other sporting and cultural events, including professional football games for the Boston Redskins and the Boston Patriots, concerts, hockey games, and political campaigns.