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The article examines the history of Fenway Park baseball field in Boston, Massachusetts in the 1990s. The creation of guided tours of the facility in 1993 by the Boston Red Sox baseball team is noted. The 1999 All-Star game played at Fenway Park is considered. A 1999 proposal by Red Sox Chief Executive Officer (CEO) John Harrington that the team construct a new field to be built adjacent to Fenway Park is discussed. The addition of outdoor advertising to the towers for the lights for the stadium on the left field wall is noted.

The article presents comments on Fenway Park baseball field in Boston, Massachusetts by employees of of the Boston Red Sox baseball team, and by baseball fans of the team who have had long associations with the stadium. Christian Elias, one of the operators of the scoreboard on the left field wall, discusses how players have entered the scoreboard to sign their names to the Fenway Park wall. Season ticket holder Lynne Smith explains the origins of an unusual hat she wears to all Red Sox games. Security official John McDermott says that the attitude of spectators has improved since the team's victory in the 2004 World Series. Head groundskeeper David Mellor describes a severe rainstorm at the Park in 2001.

The article examines the history of Fenway Park baseball field in Boston, Massachusetts during the 1980s. Major renovations made to the park during that decade are discussed, particularly the addition of a glass-enclosed section of seats behind home plate and of luxury suites on top of the left and right field grandstands. A complaint by Boston Red Sox player Wade Boggs that the additions changed wind currents in the stadium, making it harder to hit home runs, is examined, and it is noted that the number of home runs hit at Fenway Park declined in the 1990s, although home runs increased throughout baseball during that period.

The article discusses the history of Fenway Park baseball field in Boston, Massachusetts in the 1960s. The use of the field as the home field of the Boston (now New England) Patriots football team of the American Football League (AFL) from 1963-1968 is discussed. The 1967 season of the Boston Red Sox baseball team, in which it won the American League pennant and saw a dramatic increase in attendance, is considered. It is noted that the Red Sox have never had a lower paid attendance for a season than 1.4 million spectators since 1967.

The article examines the history of Fenway Park baseball field in Boston, Massachusetts during the 1970s. The decision of the Boston Red Sox baseball team to ban all events besides baseball games following a riot at a jazz festival held there in 1973 is considered. Notable events in the history of the Red Sox are discussed including the team's loss in the 1975 World Series, considered one of the most dramatic Series in baseball history, and its loss in a one-game playoff to the New York Yankees at Fenway Park in 1978.

The article examines the history of Fenway Park baseball field in Boston, Massachusetts in the 1950s. Renovations of the playing field, including the installation of new sod nd the installation of a drainage system, as well as painting of the roof of the facility done prior to the 1958 season are discussed. It is noted that the Boston Red Sox team made Pumpsie Green the first African American player in its history in 1959. Events held at the facility besides baseball, including boxing, basketball and a jazz music festival are discussed.

The article considers the history of Fenway Park baseball field in Boston, Massachusetts during the 1930s. The renovation of the facility by Thomas Yawkey, owner of the Boston Red Sox team, following his purchase of the team in 1933 is considered, with special attention paid to its impact on employment and economic development in the city. Events held at Fenway Park other than baseball games such as football games, political rallies and boxing matches are discussed. An increase in Red Sox attendance due to improvement in the team's personnel is noted.

The article considers the history of Fenway Park baseball field in Boston, Massachusetts. The dominant role played by outfielder Ted Williams on the Boston Red Sox teams of that era is discussed. Other players discussed include Joe DiMaggio and Johnny Pesky. Details are given on a potential swap between Williams and football games played at Fenway Park are noted. The failure of the Red Sox to racially integrate the team's players in the 1940s is examined. It is noted Fenway Park served as the site of the last speech given by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the 1944 election campaign.

The article considers the history of Fenway Park baseball field in Boston, Massachusetts in the 1920s. The losing record of the Boston Red Sox baseball team and its decline in attendance in that decade is considered. Events other than baseball games held at Fenway Park are discussed, including college football games, professional wrestling matches and concerts. It is noted that Massachusetts law prevented the Red Sox from playing baseball on Sundays, and that the city of Revere, Massachusetts was planning to construct a stadium to replace Fenway Park.

The article considers the history of Fenway Park baseball field in Boston, Massachusetts from its opening in 1912 to 1919. Notable events other than baseball games staged at the field are considered including football games, circuses, and a speech by Irish political leader Eamon de Valera. It is noted that the Boston Red Sox appeared in four World Series during this period. A riot which occurred during a June 16, 1917 game between the Red Sox and Chicago White Sox started by gamblers attending the game is discussed.

The author offers opinions on Fenway Park, the baseball field of the Boston Red Sox baseball team located in Boston, Massachusetts, on the occasion of its 100th anniversary. The appeal of the field to baseball fans is said to lie in both its place in the sport's history due to its age and in its irregular architectural design, as exemplified by the large wall bordering left field. The contrast between the design of Fenway Park and that of baseball stadiums built in the late 20th and 21st century is said to be that while the latter offer more conveniences for spectators, Fenway Park offers more intimacy.

The article focuses on the history of the Boston Bruins hockey team of the National Hockey League (NHL) and the team's status among sports fans in the Boston, Massachusetts region. Examples are presented of the popularity of the 2011 Bruins team due to its success in the hockey playoffs, which are compared to examples of the celebrity of the Bruins' teams of the early 1970s which won two Stanley Cup championships. Notable defeats of the Bruins since their last Cup title in 1972 are cited.

The article considers the history of left field in the Fenway Park baseball field in Boston, Massachusetts. It is noted that from 1940-1988 the Boston Red Sox baseball team had only three players serve as left fielders, Ted Williams, Carl Yastrzemski and Jim Rice, and that all three players have been elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. The extreme difficulty of fielding in left field at Fenway Park due to the 37-foot high wall at the end of the outfield and the field's irregular dimensions is discussed.

This article looks at the history of the Boston marathon. Nearly two decades ago, Blair De St. Croix moved his young family to a home on Main Street in Hopkinton, Mass., not far from the starting line for the Boston Marathon. De St. Croix had frequently watched the closing miles of the race that all of Massachusetts knows simply as the Marathon, standing alongside a street in Boston's Back Bay as runners streamed past for hours in a long, painful procession to the finish line. That's the way it is with the marathon. Begun in 1897 and contested for 107 years without interruption, the Boston Marathon is on the very short list of hallowed, old-school American athletic traditions, with events like the Kentucky Derby, the U.S. Open in golf and tennis and the Indianapolis 500. Hundreds of school buses ferry runners from Boston to Hopkinton High, the nerve center of the village on marathon day.

A caption is presented to a photograph of a pregame ceremony at the All-Star Baseball Game played at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts on July 13, 1999. The event's conclusion with the throwing of the traditional ceremonial first pitch by former Red Sox player Ted Williams is discussed, particularly the interest shown towards Williams by the players selected for the All-Star Game that year and by other former players who were also honored during the event. Player Larry Walker of the Colorado Rockies discusses the deep emotion generated by Williams' appearance.

A caption is presented to an action photograph of baseball player Carl Yastrzemski taken during the 1967 World Series in a game played at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts The photograph is used as an example of Yastrzemski's extraordinary success during the Series, in which he had a batting average over .400 and hit three home runs, all of them at Fenway Park. It is noted that the next time the Boston Red Sox were in the World Series in 1975, Yastrzemski had a batting average of .333 at Fenway Park.

A caption is presented to a 1986 action photograph of baseball pitcher Roger Clemens of the Boston Red Sox baseball team taken at Fenway Park baseball field in Boston, Massachusetts. Clemens' pitching records from 1986-1988 are cited as indications of his status as the sport's dominant pitcher in that period, including Clemens winning 24 games in 1986 and 20 in 1987, leading the American League in strikeouts in 1988 and leading in shutout games in which he did not allow a run in both 1987 and 1988.

A caption is presented to a photograph of a National Hockey League (NHL) game between the Boston Bruins and Philadelphia Flyers played outdoors at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts on January 1, 2010 which focuses on players Ian Laperriere of the Flyers and Michael Ryder of the Bruins. It is noted that this was the first hockey game played at Fenway Park, that attendance for the game was 38,112 and that weather conditions were unseasonably mild with a temperature of 39 degrees. Boston won the game 2-1 in overtime.

A caption is presented to a 1975 action photograph of baseball pitcher Luis Tiant of the Boston Red Sox taken during a game played in a dense fog at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts against the Cleveland Indians. It is noted that Tiant pitched a four-hit shutout in the Red Sox's 4-0 victory in the game. Tiant's considerable success when pitching at Fenway Park during his Red Sox career from 1972-1978 is considered, including his 68-34 won-loss record, his 16 shutouts and his 61 complete games.

A caption is presented to a photograph of the exterior of Fenway Park baseball field in Boston, Massachusetts taken during the 2007 World Series depicting spectators entering the stadium prior to the second game of that Series. The photograph is used to illustrate changes in the Park's design and renovations made during the 2000s, as well as the success of the Boston Red Sox team in that decade, in which it won two World Series, including the 2007 Series against the Colorado Rockies. Boston won the second game 2-1.

A caption is presented to a photograph of baseball player Ted Williams and other players of the Boston Red Sox team taken on April 30, 1952 prior to a game between the Red Sox and the Detroit Tigers. The photograph is of a ceremony honoring Williams as he was to leave the team to serve in the Korean War as a fighter pilot. It is noted Williams hit the game-winning home run against the Tigers and that he missed nearly two full seasons in what was his second period of service in the U.S. armed forces.

A caption is presented to a 1930 photograph of baseball fans attending a Boston Red Sox game at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts in which many spectators are seated on the playing field in the outfield due to an excess of tickets sold to the less expensive seating sections of the stadium. The ground rule making a ball hit into these spectators a ground rule double is considered. It is noted that the Red Sox ended this practice following the 1937 season, and the space then was used to construct the bullpens for relief pitchers following the 1939 season.

A caption is presented to an action photograph of baseball players Roy Partee of the Boston Red Sox and catcher Joe Garagiola of the St. Louis Cardinals and of umpire Lee Ballanfant taken during a play at home plate in the fifth game of the 1946 World Series played at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts. Partee was safe at home with what became the winning run of the game. It is noted that the Red Sox led the Series three games to two after the fifth game, and that attendance for the game was 35,982.

A caption is presented to a 1929 photograph of members of the Boston Red Sox baseball team in which several unidentified players, trainer Bits Bierhalter and pitcher Danny MacFayden are seen sitting by a stove located in the team's locker room at Fenway Park baseball field. It is noted that although the Red Sox finished in last place in the American League with a 58-96 record in that season, MacFayden was the team's best player, with an earned run average of 3.62, ninth best in the league, despite winning only 10 games while losing 18.

A caption is presented to an aerial photograph of Boston, Massachusetts taken in the 1950s which focuses on the Fenway Park baseball field located in that city, and is used as an introduction to articles published in this issue on the field's history in both baseball and other sports from 1940-1969 It is stressed that during that decade the field also served as a football stadium for college football games. Fenway Park's status as one of the city's older large buildings even during that era is discussed.

A caption is presented to a photograph of Fenway Park baseball field taken during the 1914 World Series. It is noted that the stadium was serving as the home field of the Boston Braves baseball team during the World Series as it had a larger seating capacity than the South End Grounds, the Braves home field of that period, although Fenway was customarily the home field of the Boston Red Sox. The Braves defeated the Philadelphia Athletics in the Series by winning all four games of the World Series.

Reports on legendary marathoner Bill Rodgers. How he became the icon of the running boom when he won the Boston Marathon consecutively from 1975 to 1980; Details about his weekly regiment of running 70 miles a week; His opinion on physical fitness; Information about his divorce and remarriage.