If there’s one thing you can bank on, it’s that I will subject you to some Fenway Park photos each April.
I love baseball, but far more importantly, I love Fenway Park. I think I’ve said before that there truly isn’t an inch of the park that I haven’t photographed and I am in love with its nooks and crannies.
While it has been fun to photograph the players and the games…I am much more passionate about the history inside those hallowed walls.
Through Grand Slams, walk-off homers, an “in the park home run”, World Series, Rolling Rally Parades, and so many more tremendous moments…my favorite moments are those when I have had the park to myself. I have clocked some serious hours just roaming around Fenway on sunny summer days and, as cliche as it sounds, I swear those walls can talk.
Good Morning Gloucester 
Can I be you for a day
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Absolutely, Donna!
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I love Fenway, my lab is only 300 feet behind home plate, circle it twice a day to get over to the Mass Pike. I usually go to game two, back in the 80s I would buy a block of bleacher seats for game two, one year it was 10×6= 60 seats and go back and sell them to all the lab members at Dana-Farber near my lab. It was fun to be sitting next to the German post doc and explain balls and strikes. Game 1 through three used to be day games. I miss that.
And this year tickets for excellent seats for Opening Day have fallen into my lap. Game at 3:05PM but just like the first time I walked into Fenway I will be getting into the park before batting practice. The green grass, the monster, it recharges the system.
Summer starts on MONDAY! Although this year it looks like summer will be starting on Sunday with Bikini Dodge Ball! That will also be fun. And no I will not be carrying my game tickets so mugging me will not help you get into the park.
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And Nichole, I will give you a tour of a cutting edge genomics lab if you give me a tour of Fenway. Anytime you are strolling through the park this summer I am in my lab coat just across the street on Burlington Ave. Would you like a nice place to park? Ask Joey about that, I got two spots now with my name on them and the snow finally melted.
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I will totally give you a tour some day! I’ll be in at Opening Day too. I’m hoping to be in the park by 1:15 or so. I’ll take you up on that parking spot too! I used to have a parking pass in the sox lot, but not any more. 😦
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Lost your parking eh? We have lots to trade. I also do an excellent stand up comedy science tour of DNA, Protein, who came first and life as a scientist for 4th grade classes on up. I have done 25 minute dog and pony shows for 3 to 30 kids also 5 to 20 graduate students. You can work it into a Museum of Fine Arts visit or really killer add the Fenway Tour.
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We are going to have to talk for sure!
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What a glorious hymn of joy to the Sox, to baseball and summer all in one! Can’t wait….!
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Thanks so much, Elizabeth! So kind of you. A fantastic summer day inside Fenway is one of my favorite ways ever to spend a day.
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Wow – now I can feel the spirit here – The Boston Red Sox reminds me of this Native saying.
“We don’t say wife.” we say one I make life with. Once an Eagle chooses a mate, it’s for life. We tow people find each other, it is a lifelong commitment. Along it would be very difficult; two makes it easier. My umbilical cord is buried where I was born. It’s like a magnet that knows where I am and how to bring me home!! – Lorenzo S.
I grew up with the 50’s -60’s Red Sox and Believe I still have a splinter ye check from the bleacher’s days a proud scar indeed! A very special place Fenway since 1912…The same years New Mexico – Arizona became states rock on and great shots…Boston strong there is a Lady from Rockport that wrote a nice item in APB paper can recall it off my head because I left the Cambridge based paper at the residence! Thanks Nicole for this blast on the path traveled!
🙂 Dave & Kim 🙂
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