An unforgettable pilgrimage through America's oldest major league
ballpark The Green Monster. Pesky's Pole. The Lone Red Seat. Yawkey
Way. To baseball fans this list of bizarre phrases evokes only one
place: Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox. Built in 1912,
Fenway Park is Americas oldest major league ballpark still in use.
In Faithful to Fenway, Michael Ian Borer takes us out to Fenway
where we sit in cramped wooden seats (often with obstructed views
of the playing field), where there is a hand-operated scoreboard
and an average attendance of 20,000 fewer fans than most stadiums,
and where every game has been sold out since May of 2003. There is
no Hard Rock Cafe (like Toronto's Skydome), no swimming pool (like
Arizona's Chase Field), and definitely no sushi (which has become a
fan favorite from Baltimore to Seattle). As Borer tells us in this
captivating book, Fenway is short on comfort but long on character.
Faithful to Fenway investigates the mystique of the ballpark.
Borer, who lived in Boston before and after the Red Sox historic
2004 World Series win, draws on interviews with Red Sox players,
including Jason Varitek and Carl Yastrzemski, management, including
Larry Lucchino and John Henry, groundskeepers, vendors, and scores
of fans to uncover what the park means for Boston and the people
who revere it. Borer argues that Fenway is nothing less than a
national icon, more than worthy of the banner outside the stadium
that proclaims, "America's Most Beloved Ballpark". Certainly as one
of New England's greatest landmarks, Fenway captures the hearts and
imaginations of a deferential and devoted public. There are
T-shirts, bumper stickers, banners, and snow globes that honor the
ballpark. Fenway shows up in popular films, novels, television
commercials, and in replicated form in people's backyards-and
coming in 2008 to Quincy, Massachusetts, is Mini-Fenway Park, a
replica stadium built especially for kids. Full of legendary
stories, amusing anecdotes, and the shared triumph and tragedy of
the Red Sox and their fans, Faithful to Fenway offers a fresh and
insightful perspective, offering readers an unforgettable
pilgrimage to the mecca of baseball.
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