Fenway Park Research Paper

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Did you know that Red Sox celebrated its centennial in 2012. Fenway Park is the oldest baseball stadium. It's a pretty well know fact. Though here are a couple of things that aren not common knowledge.

Number One: Red Sox and Big Crowds

The stadium Fenway currently has an official capacity of 37,673 people according to the club. It used to be different back in 1935 when a vast number of over 47 thousand folks watched the game against the Yankees. And it was not the largest crowd ever. More than 60 thousand people crammed into the Red Sox's park 16 years earlier for a political rally by Eamon de

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