Welcome to Boston, MA, home to the Red Sox and Fenway Park! Fenway Park is one of the oldest and most historic ballparks in Major League Baseball. Located at 4 Yawkey Way in Boston, Fenway Park can seat 38,805 individuals and was named after its surrounding neighborhood, The Fens. Its original look and feel make Fenway Park a classic ballpark.

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Holiday Inn Boston - Brookline
The Holiday Inn Brookline Hotel is located just four miles from downtown Boston amidst the charming brownstones and tree-lined streets of historic Brookline. Boston University is less than a mile away, Hynes Convention Center is two miles, and Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox is only a short walk away. Logan International Airport is approximately six miles away. This location also offers room service, 24-hour front desk, ATM, concierge, and meeting space. …more

About Fenway Park

Though generations have come and gone, Fenway Park remains, much like it did the day it opened on April 20, 1912.

The home of the Boston Red Sox resounds with the echoes of great baseball players: Cy Young, Babe Ruth, Jimmy Collins, Duffy Lewis, Tris Speaker, Harry Hooper, Joe Cronin, Bobby Doerr, Johnny Pesky, Ted Williams, Jimmie Foxx, Carlton Fisk, Jim Rice and Carl Yastrzemski, to name just a few.

Fenway Park is actually the second home for the Sox. In 1901, the Boston Pilgrims became one of the charter members of the fledgling American League. The Pilgrims played ball at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, now a part of Northeastern University's campus.

Boston Globe owner General Charles Henry Taylor, a Civil War veteran, bought the team for his son John I. Taylor in 1904. In 1907, owner Taylor changed the club's name from the Pilgrims to the Red Sox. In 1910, tired of the leasing arrangement for the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Taylor made a big announcement: he would build a new ballpark for his Red Sox. Taylor dubbed the new ballpark Fenway Park because of its location in the Fenway section of Boston.

The First Game
After two rain delays, Fenway Park finally hosted its first professional baseball game on April 20, 1912. (The first official game played in Fenway actually occurred on April 9 when the Sox beat Harvard University, 2-0.) The Red Sox defeated the New York Highlanders -- later known as the Yankees -- before 27,000 fans, 7-6 in 11 innings. The event would have made front page news hadit not been for the sinking of the Titanic only a few days before.

Even after the Sox made Fenway their home, they didn't always play their games there. Occasionally, the Red Sox scheduled their "big games" at Braves Field to accommodate larger crowds -- like those that were over 42,000 strong for Games Three and Four of the 1915 World Series. Boston won that year too, beating the Philadelphia Phillies.

Fenway Park's peculiar dimensions were not intended to provide a tempting target for home run hitters, but to keep non-paying customers out of the park.

In left field, there was a steep 10-foot embankment that ran in front of the wall where fans were allowed to sit. The Sox' Duffy Lewis was so skilled at playing balls hit to the ledge that it became known as Duffy's Cliff.