Boston Red Sox Baseball
The Boston Red Sox snagged one of the best pitchers of all time in 1901 when they joined the American League as the Boston Pilgrims. Fans rushed to buy Red Sox tickets to see the great "Cy" Young pitch. "Cy" spent nearly 20 years in the big leagues and set the pitching standard for all of baseball to follow. He was the only pitcher in baseballs first 100 years to win 500 games. He compiled amazing numbers by completing 751 games, pitched 7,356 innings and threw over 300 innings a year for 15 years; all this while pitching typically on two days rest, sometimes even one. In his eight years with Boston, Cy Young posted a 192-112 mark. No pitcher wearing a Red Sox uniform has come close to that record. He died in 1955 at the age of 88.
Ted Williams is a Boston Red Sox legend that played with them from 1935-1960. His amazing career was interrupted twice - once when Williams served in World War II from 1942-1946, and again when he served in the Korean Conflict in 1952-1953, missing almost the entire seasons. Nevertheless, Williams still collected 521 home runs, including a dramatic farewell homer on his last at bat in 1960. Ted Williams retired from the Boston Red Sox at the end of the 1960 season with a lifetime batting average of .344.
If you ask any Boston Red Sox fan, the greatest year since 1918 was 2004 when the “Curse of the Bambino” was finally broken. The Red Sox were led by amazing performances from Manny Ramirez, David Ortiz, Johnny Damon, Pedro Martinez and newly acquired Curt Schilling. They trotted into the postseason as the American League Wild Card entry. They became the first team in Major League Baseball history to come back from a 3-0 deficit when they defeated the Yankees for the pennant. The Sox had a lot of steam coming into the World Series game with the St. Louis Cardinals and it showed with a sweep. Fans holding Boston Red Sox tickets got to watch the long time Boston curse come to an end.
Fenway Park
Fenway Park remains, much like it did the day it opened. It was named Fenway because of its location in the Fenway section of Boston. The first Boston Red Sox baseball tickets at Fenway Park were sold on opening day on April 20, 1912.
Fenway Park still uses a manual scoreboard. It has one of the last hand-operated scoreboards in the Major Leagues in the left-field wall. Green and red lights are used to signal balls, strikes, and outs. Behind the manual scoreboard is a room where the walls are covered with signatures of players who have played at Fenway Park over the years.
The park also has one lone red seat. The seat in the right field bleachers is painted red to mark the spot where the longest measurable home run ever hit inside Fenway Park landed. Ted Williams hit the home run on June 9, 1946. The shot was measured at 502 feet. Legend says that the ball crashed through the straw hat of the man sitting in the seat - Section 42, Row 37, Seat 21. We have Fenway Park tickets for all upcoming Red Sox home games.