When is 100th anniversary of fenway park

In time, I understood that baseball — and all of its elation, heartbreak, and nostalgia — was something special. The number to beat was 27, — set at a Japanese baseball game in June The big day April 20, officially started at AM when my sister poked me awake and told me we had to hurry to make the AM commuter rail train from Lowell into North Station to guarantee we would be at Fenway on time.

Yes, the coffee was helping, but the line of news trucks and tourists milling around the park despite the early hour, posing for pictures, said this trip to Fenway was going to be something different.

At AM we reported to Gate C. Before orientation, we were allowed to head up into the open air of Fenway just behind the bullpen. We were an attentive and eager purple cluster as representatives from the park told us how to put the toasting kits together and how the counting would work. Later, we would serve as official Guinness World Record counters during the toast, and then assist the Fenway Green Team with clearing away the cups and cans.

My group of three was responsible for roughly seats in left field. We got to work breaking down the pallets of cans, then approached the task like an assembly line — cup, can, paper, cup, can, paper. That meant we had some free time to stroll the park before it opened to the public. Courtney and I agree that this was our favorite part of the day. We got to check out the view from just about any seat in the park, no questions asked. When noontime rolled around our stomachs let us know it was time for our volunteer lunch.

The contents of my boxed lunch were a welcome sight. The bricks are funny, touching reminders that Red Sox nation is flung far and wide, but strong and true. When the doors opened finally at PM, the party started. It often indicates a user profile.

Log out. US Markets Loading H M S In the news. Cork Gaines. A banner on the Green Monster marked the occasion. A couple of Boston media legends were on hand. Here are the throwback uniforms being worn by the Red Sox today. It just seems weird to see Bobby Valentine as part of this celebration.

And here are the Yankees throwbacks, although they were known as the Highlanders back then. The biggest change to Fenway in years might be these seats on The Green Monster. It wouldn't be the same without Johnny Pesky. Dozens of legends walked out without use of a public announcer, as it would have been in Bill Buckner received one of the loudest ovations. Jerry Remy is one of the more beloved Red Sox, but never hit a home run at Fenway Park he had 7 home runs in his career. The iPhones and tablets took away from the throwback feel.

Babe Ruth pitches the Sox to a win over the A's to capture the American League pennant in a war-shortened season. In his last game before leaving for his second tour of duty in the U. Marines, this time in Korea, Ted Williams hits a game-winning, two-run home run to beat the Tigers. The Sox had dubbed the occasion "Ted Williams Day. The Sox, of course, lost that playoff thanks to Bucky Dent's unlikely homer.

Carl Yastrzemski hit his th career home run, sending a pitch from Oakland's Mike Morgan into the A's bullpen during a Sox win. David Ortiz breaks Jimmie Foxx's year-old team record with his 51st home run, then adds No. The Sox go on to win the next two and the series. Clay Buchholz, in only his second major league start, throws a no-hitter against the Baltimore Orioles, striking out the final batter of the game, Nick Markakis.

The Sox blow the game open late and beat the Indians to win the AL pennant, with Coco Crisp catching the final out while crashing into the wall in center field. The win completes Boston's rally from a series deficit.

Bruce Hurst posts his third win of the postseason with a complete-game victory over the Mets that gives the Sox a lead in the World Series. The Sox would beat the Twins on a three-run walk-off homer by Todd Benzinger, part of the team's record game home winning streak that marked "Morgan Magic. In a sun-splashed home opener, the Red Sox receive their World Series champion rings and the banner is raised in center field by a number of former and present players, celebrating the team's first Series win in 86 years.

Jon Lester pitches the first no-hitter by a Red Sox left-hander since Mel Parnell in , striking out Alberto Callaspo for the final out of a win over Kansas City. Jason Varitek ties a major league record by catching his fourth no-hitter. Mel Parnell, in his final season, pitches the first Red Sox no-hitter since , beating the White Sox before a crowd of 14, Ernie Shore throws a "perfect game" against the Senators in relief of Babe Ruth, who is ejected after walking the first batter of the game.

In his 3,th and final game, Carl Yastrzemski plays left field and goes 1-for-3 in a win over Cleveland. At the end of the game, he takes a lap around the field to say goodbye to the fans, repeating a similar lap when he was honored the day before. The rabid Fenway fans razz Clemens mercilessly and he is shelled in a Red Sox win that includes two home runs by Nomar Garciaparra. The Red Sox are the last team to integrate, more than 14 years after working out Jackie Robinson and two other black players at Fenway.

They never followed up on the workouts. Carl Mays pitches a complete-game three-hitter and scores one of two unearned runs on an error by Max Flack as the Red Sox beat the Cubs to win the World Series, four games to two.

Rumors of a fix and disenchantment with baseball during wartime holds attendance down to 15, fans. Red Sox play their first major league game at Fenway Park and despite committing seven errors, rally to beat the Yankees in 11 innings. Tris Speaker knocked in the winning run. Red Sox catcher Carlton Fisk and Yankees counterpart Thurman Munson brawl after Munson barrels into Fisk on a botched suicide squeeze in the ninth inning of a tie game, bringing new life to the teams' rivalry that would carry on for years to come.

In the final game of the season, Tom Brunansky makes a diving catch down the right-field line with runners on first and second for the last out of a win over the White Sox that clinched the AL East title. Closer Jeff Reardon left was on the mound. After going hitless in his previous 12 at-bats, Carl Yastrzemski grounds a single past Yankees second baseman Willie Randolph for his 3,th career hit. Williams goes 4-for-4 in the game with two home runs, four runs scored and 5 RBIs in the AL's victory.

Ted Williams hits what is regarded the longest home run in Sox history, a drive estimated at feet commemorated by a red seat in the right-field bleachers. As legend has it, the ball struck the spectator in that seat, Joseph Bouchard, a year-old construction engineer from Albany, N. He displayed a hole in his straw hat after the game. Tony Conigliaro, playing for the first time since his beaning 18 months earlier, hits a two-run home run in the 10th, then walks and scores the winning run in the 12th to beat the Orioles in Baltimore.

Less than a week later, on April 14, he re-debuted at Fenway and singled in what proved to be the winning run in a Red Sox win. Correction: We originally incorrectly identified the April 8 game as having taken place at Fenway. Jason Varitek confronts the Yankees' Alex Rodriguez, shoving his mitt in his face, to set off a brawl before Bill Mueller's walk-off home run off Mariano Rivera gave the Sox an comeback win that is seen as a flashpoint in the World Series season.

Smoky Joe Wood and Walter Johnson pitch opposite each other in a much-ballyhooed contest between baseball's two best pitchers. Wood gains a narrow victory over Washington on his way to a mark for the season. As many as 40, fans turned out to watch, spilling onto the field and even occupying the dugouts.