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Tenant: Boston Red Sox (AL)

Opened: April 20, 1912

First night game: June 13, 1947

Surface: Bluegrass

Capacity: 35,000 (1912), 35,500 (1947), 35,200 (1949), 34,824 (1953), 34,819 (1958), 33,368 (1960), 33,357 (1961), 33,524 (1965), 33,375 (1968), 33,379 (1971), 33,437 (1976), 33,513 (1977), 33,538 (1979), 33,536 (1981), 33,465 (1983), 33,583 (1985), 34,182 (1989), 34,171 (1991), 33,925 (1992), 34,218 (1993), 33,577 for day games and 33,993 for night games (2001).

Attendance figures

Architect: Osborn Engineering (1912 & 1934)

Construction: James McLaughlin (1912); Coleman Brothers Corp. (1934)

Owner: Boston Red Sox

Cost: $650,000 (1912)

Location: Left field (N), Lansdowne Street, Boston & Albany Railroad tracks and Massachusetts Turnpike (I-90); third base (W), Brookline Avenue and Jersey Street (renamed Yawkey Way after BoSox owner in 1976), also bowling alley building attached to park; first base (S), Van Ness Street (built after park was done); right field (E), Ipswich Street and Fenway Garage building.

Dimensions: Left field: 324 (1921), 320.5 (1926), 320 (1930), 318 (1931), 320 (1933), 312 (1934), 315 (1936) [figure revised to 310 in 1995]; left-center: 379 (1934); deep left-center at flagpole: 388 (1934); flagpole removed from field of play (1970); center field: 488 (1922), 468 (1930), 388.67 (1934), 389.67 (1954), 390 (current); deepest corner, just right of center: 550 (1922), 593 (1931), 420 (1934) [Note: 593 is cited in 1931-1933 Bluebooks; this could be a misprint.] right-center, just right of deepest corner where the bullpen begins: 380 (1938), 383 (1955); right of right-center: 405 (1939), 382 (1940), 381 (1942), 380 (1943); right field: 313.5 (1921), 358.5 (1926), 358 (1930), 325 (1931), 358 (1933), 334 (1934), 332 (1936), 322 (1938), 332 (1939), 304 (1940), 302 (1942); backstop: 68 (1912), 60 (1934); foul territory: smallest in the majors.

Fences: Left field: 25 (wood, 1912), 37.17 (tin over wood over concrete lower section, 1934), 37.17 (hard plastic, 1976); left-field wall to center bleacher wall behind flagpole: 18 sloping to 17 (concrete, 1934), crash pad added from 18 inches to 6 feet on left and center field walls (1976); center field to bullpen fence: 8.75 (wood, 1940); right-center bullpen fence: 5.25 (wood, 1940); right-field wall and railing: bullpen 3.42 sloping to 5.37 at foul pole (steel, 1940); right-field belly: the low railing and wall curve out sharply from the 302 marker at the right-field foul pole into deep right field.