Stout: Why Fenway Park has never hosted a full-blown World Series celebration before
From Glenn Stout at Verb Plow on October 29, 2013:
Ah, the post season. Maybe this one, in the long run, will mean more. Maybe this one will be different.
Because, you see, it’s always something with this club, something that, no matter the final score, has always taken the shine off a championship in ways no other team has ever faced. The end result is that Fenway Park, the oldest ballpark in the major leagues, has never, never ever ever, been the site for a full-blown championship celebration.
Take 1903, when Boston won the first World Series. Hunky dory, right? Well… do the math. That one wasn’t played at Fenway Park, but at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, and even then only a few more than 7,000 people turned out for the finale as the crowds had come to the conclusion the who thing might have been rigged (and it looked like it might rain) so you can cross that one off.
Ok then, 1912, an eight-game victory over that other pesky New York team, the Giants. Except for the fact that Sox fans rioted on the field, a couple Sox players (at least) punched each other out, a game or two might have been fixed and that by the end of the Series Fenway Park was half-full and nobody in Boston gave a damn, it was great. Really.
Read the full article here: http://verbplow.blogspot.com/2013/10/first-time-for-everything.html
Originally published: October 29, 2013. Last Updated: October 29, 2013.