When the 2015 Boston Red Sox reported to Fort Myers, Florida, for spring training, state of the art facilities, a battery of instructors, and a full staff of physical training specialists awaited them. JetBlue Park at Fenway South includes Major and Minor League operations, training and rehabilitative facilities, and six practice fields. Every effort is made [...]
Now that the Red Sox equipment truck is headed to spring training in Fort Myers, FL, the 144th consecutive season of professional baseball in Boston is underway! We are celebrating by changing our masthead above to note this fact. Boston’s 144 consecutive seasons is the most in major league baseball—in fact the most in the world. Chicago is second with 142 [...]
It was a kid's dream, the night-time fantasy of a ten-year-old. He steps into the batter's box at Fenway Park, taps his bat on home plate, then slowly raises his head to stare down the Green Monster. Smacking a line drive to left was no big deal—a single for sure, a double if it hit the wall. But the kid wants to launch one, lift it into the net. In the d [...]
Fans of the Boston’s Braves and Red Sox might enjoy spending some time exploring the images housed in the “Sports Temples of Boston” portion of the Boston Public Library’s website. Specific sections are devoted to events at the baseball “temples” of the Congress Street Grounds, South End Grounds, Huntington Avenue Grounds, Fenway Park and Braves Field. A l [...]
Different Century, Same Result. In his book Boston’s 100 Greatest Games, author Rob Sneddon ranked the Red Sox’ come-from-behind win over the Yankees on October 10, 1904, which clinched the American League pennant, No. 86. (Note: Although the Boston and New York teams weren’t called the Red Sox and Yankees until later, Sneddon used the modern names retroacti [...]