MLB Baseball Stadiums

Fenway Park Stadium

Tenant: Boston Red Sox (AL)
Opened: April 20, 1912
First night game: June 13, 1947
Surface: Bluegrass
Capacity: 35,000 (1912), 35,500 (1947), 35,200 (1949), 34,824 (1953), 34,819 (1958), 33,368 (1960), 33,357 (1961), 33,524 (1965), 33,375 (1968), 33,379 (1971), 33,437 (1976), 33,513 (1977), 33,538 (1979), 33,536 (1981), 33,465 (1983), 33,583 (1985), 34,182 (1989), 34,171 (1991), 33,925 (1992), 34,218 (1993), 33,577 for day games and 33,993 for night games (2001).

Dimensions: Left field: 324 (1921), 320.5 (1926), 320 (1930), 318 (1931), 320 (1933), 312 (1934), 315 (1936) [figure revised to 310 in 1995]; left-center: 379 (1934); deep left-center at flagpole: 388 (1934); flagpole removed from field of play (1970); center field: 488 (1922), 468 (1930), 388.67 (1934), 389.67 (1954), 390 (current); deepest corner, just right of center: 550 (1922), 593 (1931), 420 (1934) [Note: 593 is cited in 1931-1933 Bluebooks; this could be a misprint.] right-center, just right of deepest corner where the bullpen begins: 380 (1938), 383 (1955); right of right-center: 405 (1939), 382 (1940), 381 (1942), 380 (1943); right field: 313.5 (1921), 358.5 (1926), 358 (1930), 325 (1931), 358 (1933), 334 (1934), 332 (1936), 322 (1938), 332 (1939), 304 (1940), 302 (1942); backstop: 68 (1912), 60 (1934); foul territory: smallest in the majors.

Fences: Left field: 25 (wood, 1912), 37.17 (tin over wood over concrete lower section, 1934), 37.17 (hard plastic, 1976); left-field wall to center bleacher wall behind flagpole: 18 sloping to 17 (concrete, 1934), crash pad added from 18 inches to 6 feet on left and center field walls (1976); center field to bullpen fence: 8.75 (wood, 1940); right-center bullpen fence: 5.25 (wood, 1940); right-field wall and railing: bullpen 3.42 sloping to 5.37 at foul pole (steel, 1940); right-field belly: the low railing and wall curve out sharply from the 302 marker at the right-field foul pole into deep right field.

Architect: Osborn Engineering (1912 & 1934)
Construction: James McLaughlin (1912); Coleman Brothers Corp. (1934)
Owner: Boston Red Sox