Fenway

Jim Ingraham
JIngraham@News-Herald.com
First trips to Fenway Park can be memorable. It’s not often you get to visit a ballpark built in 1912, and still hosting major league games nearly 100 years later.
“I’ve always wanted to come here, and I finally made it,’’ said Channel 5 cameraman Tom Livingston. “When I walked through the gates I thought I’d hear the sound of trumpets and angels singing.’’
Fenway does have a different feel, a different, smell, a different sound than other major league parks. For all its character and charm, however, it’s not the greatest place in which to watch a game.
The seats are very close together, the aisles very narrow, and the concrete under the stands in the concourse is uneven and at times slippery.
But it is one of the only places you can go to watch a ballgame being played on the same field Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb played on, so there’s something to be said for that.
There’s another feature at Fenway that is very appealing. They play organ music there. A lot. This is just a personal opinion, but there isn’t enough organ music played in major league ballparks anymore.
In most parks the music is loud, short bursts of recorded music, sandwiched around all the mindless games and gimmicky promotions displayed on the Jumbotron.
Fenway Park doesn’t have a Jumbotron.
That’s another reason why Fenway is so nice to visit. It can be noisy, but the noise is generated by the baseball team, not the marketing department.