Take Me Out to the Ballgame...Charles B-Day Trip Part 3

Well, this is the 3rd time I've been to Boston during baseball season and the 3rd time the Red Sox have been out of town.. grrr. So this time I compromised and went to Fenway Park for a tour. Eventhough I was the big baseball fan Lori, Meg, Charles, and Anna enjoyed the tour also.

This was no tour for weak Yankee fans.

Our guide made comments about their intelligence,
the evilness of their team and city, etc. He has been in Boston and a fan of the Red Sox since 1949. We got to see just about everything but the locker rooms.

The past few years there have been seats on the Green Monster. The only way to sit there is through a lottery that is held online.

You register at the Red Sox site and if you are picked you can buy 2 tickets at

$150 each for 1 game. The view from there is really good. In fact, everywhere we went was a good seat.

The is a section below the press box that in order to get tickets there you have to commit to 2 seats every home game for like 7 years. End cost is about $350,000.
Don't worry there is a waiting list.

Fenway still has some wood seats.. not benches though. The owners from the 20s to the 60s want to be immortalized at Fenway. You can see in this picture dots and dashes on 2 of the vertical lines. Those are the initials of the owner and his wife. Pretty cool.

The person who runs the totally manual score board on the bottom of the Green Monster makes about $60 a game. He has been doing it about 16 years and there is a 400 person waiting list for this job. The room back there is very narrow with no heat or air conditioning or water or toilet...