Fenway Park

Fenway Park in Boston's Kenmore Square is the oldest ballpark in Major League Baseball, home of the Red Sox since it opened in 1912. The park is defined by its cramped, irregular dimensions — most famously the towering 37-foot "Green Monster" wall in left field — packed into a tight urban footprint that puts fans right on top of the action. Game days spill out onto Yawkey Way and Lansdowne Street, giving Fenway an old-school neighborhood-ballpark atmosphere unlike anywhere else in the sport. It remains one of the hardest tickets in baseball and a pilgrimage site for fans well beyond New England.

Fenway opened on April 20, 1912 and has hosted more than a century of Red Sox baseball, including World Series championships in 1912, 1915, 1916, 1918, and the modern-era titles of 2004, 2007, 2013, and 2018. Its many quirks carry their own lore, from Pesky's Pole down the short right-field line to the lone red seat in the right-field bleachers marking the landing spot of Ted Williams' 502-foot home run in 1946. The Green Monster itself, built in 1934 and topped with a manual scoreboard still updated by hand, has become as iconic as any player who's played in front of it. Renovations over the past two decades — including Green Monster seating added in 2003 — have modernized the park while preserving its historic bones, and it remains a working symbol of continuity in a league where old stadiums are rare.