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| expanded = 1934, 1946, 2002-2011 | renovated = 1988, 2002-2011 | owner = Fenway Sports Group / Boston Red Sox | operator = Fenway Sports Group / Boston Red Sox | surface = Kentucky Blue Grass | construction_cost = $650,000 ($ in dollars) | architect = James McLaughlin〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.baseball-almanac.com/stadium/fenway_park.shtml )〕 | project_manager = | structural engineer = Osborne Engineering Corp.〔 | services engineer = | general_contractor = Charles Logue Building Company, Coleman Brothers, Inc.〔 | main_contractors = | former_names = | tenants = Boston Red Sox (MLB) (1912–present) Boston Braves (MLB) (1914–1915) Boston Bulldogs (AFL) (1926) Boston Redskins (NFL) (1933–1936) Boston Shamrocks (AFL) (1936–1937) Boston Yanks (NFL) (1944–1948) Boston Patriots (AFL) (1963–1968) Boston Beacons (NASL) (1968) | seating_capacity = 37,673 (night), 37,227 (day) | dimensions = Left Field: 310 ft (94.5 m) Deep Left-Center: 379 ft (115.5 m) Center Field: 389 ft 9 in (118.8 m) Deep Right-Center: 420 ft (128 m) Right Center: 380 ft (115.8 m) Right Field: 302 ft (92 m) Backstop: 60 ft (18.3 m) | nrhp= }} Fenway Park is a baseball park located in Boston, Massachusetts, at 4 Yawkey Way near Kenmore Square. Since 1912, it has been the home of the Boston Red Sox, the city's Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise. It is the oldest and most historic ballpark in MLB. Because of its age and constrained location in Boston's dense Fenway–Kenmore neighborhood, the park has been renovated or expanded many times, resulting in quirky features including "The Triangle" (below), "Pesky's Pole", and the Green Monster in left field. It is the fourth smallest among MLB ballparks by seating capacity, second smallest by total capacity, and one of eight that cannot accommodate at least 40,000 spectators. Fenway has hosted the World Series ten times, with the Red Sox winning five of them, and the Braves (then of Boston) winning one. The first, in the park's inaugural season, was the 1912 World Series and the most recent was the 2013 World Series. Beside baseball games it has been the site of many other sporting and cultural events including professional football games for the Boston Redskins, Boston Yanks, and the Boston Patriots; concerts; soccer and hockey games; and political and religious campaigns. April 20, 2012, marked Fenway Park's centennial. On March 7 of that year, the park was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Former pitcher Bill Lee has called Fenway Park "a shrine". Today, the park is considered to be one of the most well-known sports venues in the world. ==History== The Red Sox moved to Fenway Park from the old Huntington Avenue Grounds. In 1911, owner John I. Taylor purchased the land bordered by Brookline Avenue, Jersey Street, Van Ness Street and Lansdowne Street and developed it into a larger baseball stadium.〔 Taylor claimed the name Fenway Park came from its location in the Fenway neighborhood of Boston, which was partially created late in the nineteenth century by filling in marshland or "fens", to create the Back Bay Fens urban park. However, given that Taylor's family also owned the Fenway Realty Company, the promotional value of the naming at the time has been cited as well. Like many classic ballparks, Fenway Park was constructed on an asymmetrical block, with consequent asymmetry in its field dimensions. The General Contractor was the Charles Logue Building Company. The first game was played April 20, 1912, with mayor John F. Fitzgerald throwing out the first pitch and Boston defeating the New York Highlanders (renamed the Yankees the next year), 7-6 in 11 innings. Newspaper coverage of the opening was overshadowed by continuing coverage of the ''Titanic'' sinking a few days earlier. Fenway Park has historically drawn low attendance, its lowest occurring late in the 1965 season with two games having paid attendance under 500 spectators.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/BOS/1965_sched.shtml )〕 Its attendance has risen since the Red Sox' 1967 "Impossible Dream" season, and on September 8, 2008, with a game versus the Tampa Bay Rays, Fenway Park broke the all-time Major League record for consecutive sellouts with 456, surpassing the record previously set by Jacobs Field (now Progressive Field) in Cleveland, Ohio. On Wednesday, June 17, 2009, the park celebrated its 500th consecutive Red Sox sellout. According to WBZ-TV, the team joined three NBA teams who achieved 500 consecutive home sellouts. The sellout streak ended on April 11, 2013; in all the Red Sox sold out 794 regular season games and an additional 26 postseason games during this streak. The park's address was originally 24 Jersey Street. In 1977, the section of Jersey Street nearest the park was renamed Yawkey Way in honor of longtime Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey, and the park's address is now 4 Yawkey Way. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fenway Park」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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