Faithful to Fenway by Michael Ian Borer - 9780814799772

Faithful to FenwayBelieving in Boston, Baseball, and America's Most Beloved Ballpark\nAuthor(s): Michael Ian Borer\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: New York University Press, United States\nImprint: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9780814799772, 978-0814799772\nSynopsis\nAn unforgettable pilgrimage through America's oldest major league ballpark\n The Green Monster. Pesky's Pole. The Lone Red Seat. Yawkey Way. To baseball fans this list of bizarre phrases evokes only one place: Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox. Built in 1912, Fenway Park is Americas oldest major league ballpark still in use. In Faithful to Fenway, Michael Ian Borer takes us out to Fenway where we sit in cramped wooden seats (often with obstructed views of the playing field), where there is a hand-operated scoreboard and an average attendance of 20,000 fewer fans than most stadiums, and where every game has been sold out since May of 2003. There is no Hard Rock Caf (like Toronto's Skydome), no swimming pool (l.